hi friends is your boy Hugh here from CreatorUp with the help of Omar from
Radiant Images today we are going to do a low light VR camera comparison the VR
cameras in this test are Z Cam K1 Pro, Panasonic Gh5 and the Kandao
Obsidian S. We call this comparison the candle test which we are going to light
a room with only candles and we measure the noise and performance and find out
which one is best for extremely low light scenario this is a VR 180 video to
see 3d stereo and look around you need to watch this on a VR headset and here
is the instruction on how
the first test is from the Z Cam k1 pro shooting at ISO 1600
Please note in a real production especially VR 180 production you will
never light a set only with candlelight but even in this extreme situation where
you can still see me and my face pretty well in this candlelight environment in
such a high ISO you see moving digital noise from the z cam K1 Pro even with
the micro 4/3 sensor noise is unavoidable from the Z cam so don't buy
into the misconception that Z Cam k1 pro or the v1 Pro will magically look good
in the extreme low light environment
and here is the Same K Cam K1 Pro footage but with the neat video denoiser
adobe premiere plugin as you can see it is possible to get rid of the moving
noise in post-production if you can resharpen the footage with the BorisFX
continuum VR units even this footage can be rescued in post but expect
a decent amount of post-processing in any low-light production with the K1
Pro
the next test is from the Kandao Obsidian S shooting at ISO 1600s and in
6k 30fps the footage is not as sharp as the K1 Pro but the obsidian has way
less noise than the K1 Pro the low light footage is very clean without
the use of any denoiser plugin I am very surprised by the quality of this
video VR360 camera with a smaller sensor than the K1 pro or the V1
Pro yes the quality of the K1 Pro is still
better and letting more light into the sensor so slight brigher image but
without the need of heavy post-production touch-up Kendall
obsidian has its very special place in low-light production this is shot before
the Kandao recent announcement of further improvement of low-light
performance so hopefully the new update from Kandao
will fix some coloring issue in low-light and further reduce the digital
noise the last test is from panasonic lumix gf5
i thought the image quality will be the best from the GH5 and V-log and
10 bit but surprised me the image quality of the GH5 is actually very
bad in low-light the coloring noise and the banding in V-log from the GH5
make the footage unusable also it does not seem that the GH5 Micro
4/3 censor adding as much light compared to the Z cam K1 Pro I'm
very disappointed in the performance of the GH5 I hope that GH5s will
have better performance in low-light scenario but since the gh5s has a
non-square sensor with a smaller vertical size the resolution cannot go
up to 6k in 30fps we might look into sony alpha 7 mark 2
for further testing so all the original test footage for all three cameras are
available to download for free so for download link in the description below
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