IAC DISCUSSION FORUMS

Trying to get the best out of my Z5 while shooting
several scenes at night.

Virtually every type of light you could think of is in the
shot, tungsten, sodium, CF, you name it its there!

The camera up until now has produced some excellent
images, but the main character's face is poorly
visible , no matter how creative using the exisiting
street lights ...

Have any of you on this learned list got any
Tricks of the trade to get really really good results
shooting in the dark?

Appreciated....

It sounds stuff you'll have bound to have tried, but maybe there might be a new one -

1) Slow the shutter down to 1/50th or less. Tripod and fixed maybe needed, or maybe not.
2) Gain on loads, even hyper gain which the Z5 has.
3) Light on top of the cam
4) light the face of the subject
5) Take the colour out
6) Wide angle, so the zoom doesn't take out a stop or two.
7) Cheat - make the shot look darker than it actually is.

Megacheat - use a mega lumin projector at the club.