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Here are some shots I took last Friday night with my new G1 X at a G. Love & Special Sauce concert at a nightclub in Scottsdale, AZ. It was dim lighting, so bumped up the ISO to 6400 and shot all night at Tv mode @ 1/100 shutter speed. Pretty stoked about the results! I doubt I could have pulled this off with my G11. These were shot in RAW and processed with DPP.











On the way home from the show, I stopped at Tempe Town Lake and took these..







Links to both galleries with full-size images

http://desertsky.smugmug.com/Music/G-Love-2012-02-17/

http://desertsky.smugmug.com/Arizona/Tempe-Town-Lake-at-Night/

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http://desertsky.smugmug.com
 
--thx...certainly noise free...some a bit blurry...guess at end length of zoom it may be a bit hard to get sharp af...and with low contrast to boot. still...very nice !! tis my plan too.
 
Wow. Nice. I am loving this camera. And so clean at these ISOs.
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“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.” Ernst Haas

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Really nice low light shots.

Ken
 
Very impressive! You did a good job with a fine camera. Thanks for sharing.
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Eternity was in that moment.
 
I love those shots, and hope to get a G1 X soon, I apologize for not knowing, but what is DPP and where do you get it? Thank You
 
forgot to mention in my original post.. I shot some video clips at the G. Love concert with the G1 X. They're up on YouTube. Here's one of the video links..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCwzLl0axI8

As with my G11, the G1 X cannot handle loud environments like concerts very well. If you're gong to shoot video in loud einvironments with the G1 X, definitely plan on recording audio separately with a digital audio recorder and then sync up to the video footage in post-processing.

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Thank you to the OP. Great work, both shooting and DPP. Like an earlier poster, I find this work to be all the evidence I need...I'm gettin' me one of those cameras.

Your post should be enough to silence the trolls for a few seconds at least. It probably won't be, but it should be.

Thanks again.

--Ken S.
 
The pictures in available light are excellent. Looks like a picture taking machine. That said I found myself wondering why the sound on the video is subpar. I only listened to a minute or so but it seems to me something is out of whack (so to speak) because the music wasn't that loud, in my opinion. Is it possible a switch on the camera was overlooked? Just asking.
 
The video quality is very impressive. Was the camera on a tripod or something? Looks too steady for handheld. You didn't zoom at all, was it because the camera was already at full zoom or you didn't want the ISO to drop? I am seriously considering G1 X but was going to have a second compact for video (mostly for my kids family archive) but it looks like I may be able to get along with just G1 X for video as well. If you are into video, please post more samples.
 
jonrobertp said:
--thx...certainly noise free...some a bit blurry...guess at end length of zoom it may be a bit hard to get sharp af...and with low contrast to boot. still...very nice !! tis my plan too.
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Yeah, the blurriness looks like the result of noise reduction...stronger than I would have expected...
 
The camera was hand-held, not on any tripod. I believe the G1 X does use IS when shooting video, so that's helping it to remain stable. I was so close to the stage I really didn't need to zoom in much. In one of the videos I posted I do zoom into the drummer briefly then zoom back out.

I'll should have some more video on YouTube tomorrow. I'm taking the camera to a pro soccer game tonight, so I'll try to shoot a few video clips.
VadymA said:
The video quality is very impressive. Was the camera on a tripod or something? Looks too steady for handheld. You didn't zoom at all, was it because the camera was already at full zoom or you didn't want the ISO to drop? I am seriously considering G1 X but was going to have a second compact for video (mostly for my kids family archive) but it looks like I may be able to get along with just G1 X for video as well. If you are into video, please post more samples.
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My G11 couldn't record loud concerts without a lot of distortion, so I'm not surprised the G1 X isn't doing much better. At the show last Friday, I was just a few feet from the monitors on the stage, so the bass really overloaded what the camera's internal microphone can handle. A manual audio level control in the G1 X would be nice. I looked in the menus and couldn't find any such setting.
Andew said:
The pictures in available light are excellent. Looks like a picture taking machine. That said I found myself wondering why the sound on the video is subpar. I only listened to a minute or so but it seems to me something is out of whack (so to speak) because the music wasn't that loud, in my opinion. Is it possible a switch on the camera was overlooked? Just asking.
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http://desertsky.smugmug.com
 
Wow, this is even more impressive. I usually have some vertical/diagonal camera moves even with IS just from natural body/hands movement when shooting hahnd-held. Not exactly shake but I find it difficult to avoid it. You managed to hold the camera for 5 minutes with practically unnoticeable movements other than panning. Look forward to your soccer video, that should be interesting. Please zoom and pan a bit to give us some examples of what camera can do. And if you are a Mac user, have you figured out which software works well for serious video editing of G1 X files (particularly I wonder if iMovie can natively extract 24p files from the camera and edit them)?
John Telleria said:
The camera was hand-held, not on any tripod. I believe the G1 X does use IS when shooting video, so that's helping it to remain stable. I was so close to the stage I really didn't need to zoom in much. In one of the videos I posted I do zoom into the drummer briefly then zoom back out.

I'll should have some more video on YouTube tomorrow. I'm taking the camera to a pro soccer game tonight, so I'll try to shoot a few video clips.
VadymA said:
The video quality is very impressive. Was the camera on a tripod or something? Looks too steady for handheld. You didn't zoom at all, was it because the camera was already at full zoom or you didn't want the ISO to drop? I am seriously considering G1 X but was going to have a second compact for video (mostly for my kids family archive) but it looks like I may be able to get along with just G1 X for video as well. If you are into video, please post more samples.
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http://desertsky.smugmug.com
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PaulRivers said:
jonrobertp said:
--thx...certainly noise free...some a bit blurry...guess at end length of zoom it may be a bit hard to get sharp af...and with low contrast to boot. still...very nice !! tis my plan too.
Click to expand...
Yeah, the blurriness looks like the result of noise reduction...stronger than I would have expected...
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You should try to run them through DxO Optics Pro 7. I've had good results with high ISO shots. It seems to pull a lot of detail out of high ISO shots. They have a free trial, so it doesn't cost to try it out.

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Tom

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