TL350 video indoor?

Has anyone taken low light indoor video of the TL350 in artificial light? How well does the video hold up? Also, how is the quality of the still pictures in dual capture mode? Want to see what exposure setting the camera choose.

Thanks a lot.

curtisfun said:

Has anyone taken low light indoor video of the TL350 in artificial light? How well does the video hold up?

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I don't even need to see it to tell you it won't hold up. We've seen what these tiny backlit sensors can and cannot do already in various cameras (Sony, Casio, Canon, Ricoh). A $1000 dedicated camcorder doesn't hold up in low light so it's not surprising that these little P&S cams do even worse.

Quality will vary from useless to poor.

Even with Sony NEX and Canon and Nikon DSLR video I've used with much larger sensors and large aperture lenses you have to make sure there is a lot of lighting. You have to make sure there is much more lighting with a compact like this or the quality frustrates you too much.

Indeed. If you look at dedicated camcorders, you'll see that they constantly brag the Lux game....3 Lux, 2 Lux, 1 Lux, etc. The ultra tiny sensors in pocket cams aren't even NEAR the same ball park, let alone IN it. The tradeoff of course is that the camcorders don't have anywhere near the resolution of the digicams. You can NOT have both unless you wanna spend the BIG money...as in many thousand$ for pro gear. And even THEY sometimes need light assist.

Ok - sorry, to open a week or two old thread, but I'm finding the responses to not match my experience.

I have a Canon s90. The video is fantastic in low light. I can get bright, easy to see video in conditions that I can't take a decent picture in - and the s90 is the best (or one of the best, but there isn't better) cameras for low light photography for it's size (anything smaller than micro 4/3rds). It's totally weird - I've been asking myself "If the camera can take video under this lighting, why can't it take a decent picture??".

Don't get me wrong - the max resolution on the video is vga - not great.

The Canon sd4000 uses a similar or identical backlit sensor to the TL350, and it does as well or almost as well in low light as the s90 (despite the smaller sensor vs the s90) with pictures.

So I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that the TL350 is going to do terrible. Wish I contribute more by saying "I used it"...unfortunately I haven't tried it. Would be curious to hear from anyone who has.

Here's a series of SD4000 low-light/night club videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWZ9LunBpAM&feature=PlayList&p=53D2EA4A0DD0A208&index=0&playnext=1

Not bad - you can still make out the couples' faces. At least it isn't grainy.
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Overall I can't say enough positive things about this camera. Sure it would be nice if it had HD video or a higher resolution screen but those aren't required to take fantastic pictures.

The SD4000 does reasonably well in low light but only at wide. The minute you zoom you lose the benefit of the f2 lens and it all goes dark.

My WB2000/TL350 is less noisy in low light indoors than my DSC-TX7 but the footage is a bit dark and black objects have absolutely no detail - just black blobs.

I have searched high and low in the settings menu for some way of fixing this; tried all the options I could find and nothing makes any difference.

Honestly, it's pretty disappointing as you can tell from other posts, but what bugs me the most is how loud the camera is. Every time I play back a video, I mostly hear static noise along with the camera lens constantly auto focusing. Such a disappointment

mike12431 said:

Honestly, it's pretty disappointing as you can tell from other posts, but what bugs me the most is how loud the camera is. Every time I play back a video, I mostly hear static noise along with the camera lens constantly auto focusing. Such a disappointment

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Actually I have to take that back, it must have been the cameras speakers but when I played back the videos on my tv, the sound quality was pretty good.