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Extreme low-light hand-held night video with f1.4 lenses and the M6ii

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OP Larry Rexley Senior Member • Posts: 1,238
Re: Extreme low-light hand-held night video with f1.4 lenses and the M6ii

Photato wrote:

Interesting as a challenge exercise but under such difficult conditions and more so for videos, I'd use a gimbal.
You are reaching the limits on what in-camera or lenses stabilization can do.

Very true, definitely the limits for the M series... the R7 would have some advantages here with its IBIS and higher quality video modes.

I do have a Zhiyun Crane M2 gimbal and thought it would solve all my stability problems ---- turns out for trains it really does not work, the tracking and framing needs to be far quicker and more precise than what I could get with any of the gimbal modes, even with sensitivity customizations. The camera EVF to the eye is far superior, I think. Also the gimbal was only useful for wide angle shots --- for telephoto images it was impossible to control and keep the train framed as it moved.

Good thought though..... I'll experiment with ithe gimbal more at some point. The gimbal does work amazingly well for the situations it's good at, and I'm sure I'll get some good use out of it.

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