DPReview.com is closing April 10th - Find out more

G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

Started Feb 22, 2012 | Discussions
John Telleria Regular Member • Posts: 152
G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

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/

-- hide signature --
 John Telleria's gear list:John Telleria's gear list
Canon PowerShot G1 X
Canon PowerShot G1 X Canon PowerShot G11
If you believe there are incorrect tags, please send us this post using our feedback form.
jonrobertp Forum Pro • Posts: 12,880
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos
-- hide signature --

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.

 jonrobertp's gear list:jonrobertp's gear list
Canon PowerShot G7 X Canon G3 X Panasonic ZS100
GaryJP
GaryJP Veteran Member • Posts: 6,604
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

Wow. Nice. I am loving this camera. And so clean at these ISOs.
--

“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

http://garyp.zenfolio.com/p518883873/

 GaryJP's gear list:GaryJP's gear list
Fujifilm X10 Sony RX100 II Canon G1 X II Canon PowerShot G5 X Canon G7 X II +16 more
linzybel Contributing Member • Posts: 651
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

Those are excellent pictures. Nice work with the DPP, too. It's hard to find fault with those results from a carry-around camera, at those ISOs. That's just the proof I've been looking for.

 linzybel's gear list:linzybel's gear list
Canon EOS 60D
Ken53 Senior Member • Posts: 2,270
ISO 6400 + Compact = Breaking New Ground

Really nice low light shots.

Ken

 Ken53's gear list:Ken53's gear list
Canon PowerShot G15 Canon PowerShot SX50 HS Canon PowerShot SX60 HS Canon EOS 70D Canon EOS 7D Mark II +14 more
rkhndjr Forum Pro • Posts: 13,082
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

Very impressive! You did a good job with a fine camera. Thanks for sharing.
--

Eternity was in that moment.

atver7 Forum Member • Posts: 88
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

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

OP John Telleria Regular Member • Posts: 152
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

DPP is short for Digital Photo Professional, the RAW image processing software that comes included with Canon cameras. I would normally use Lightroom 3, but Adobe has yet to release an update that supports G1 X RAW.
--
http://desertsky.smugmug.com

 John Telleria's gear list:John Telleria's gear list
Canon PowerShot G1 X
OP John Telleria Regular Member • Posts: 152
Videos from the show

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.

-- hide signature --
 John Telleria's gear list:John Telleria's gear list
Canon PowerShot G1 X
Ken Sarno Forum Member • Posts: 81
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

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.

-- hide signature --

Ken S.

 Ken Sarno's gear list:Ken Sarno's gear list
Olympus E-M1 III Canon EOS R5 Canon EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM Canon EF 24mm f/1.4L II USM Canon EF 135mm F2L USM +11 more
Andew Regular Member • Posts: 134
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

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.

VadymA Senior Member • Posts: 1,590
Re: Videos from the show

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.

 VadymA's gear list:VadymA's gear list
Nikon D300 Nikon 1 J5 Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D Tokina AT-X Pro 11-16mm f/2.8 DX Nikon AF-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED +7 more
jimr Forum Pro • Posts: 11,405
Very Impressive IQ! How Do You...

find the AF?

PaulRivers Veteran Member • Posts: 7,420
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

jonrobertp wrote:

Yeah, the blurriness looks like the result of noise reduction...stronger than I would have expected...

OP John Telleria Regular Member • Posts: 152
Re: Videos from the show

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 wrote:

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.

-- hide signature --
 John Telleria's gear list:John Telleria's gear list
Canon PowerShot G1 X
OP John Telleria Regular Member • Posts: 152
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

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 wrote:

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.

-- hide signature --
 John Telleria's gear list:John Telleria's gear list
Canon PowerShot G1 X
VadymA Senior Member • Posts: 1,590
Re: Videos from the show

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 wrote:

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 wrote:

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.

 VadymA's gear list:VadymA's gear list
Nikon D300 Nikon 1 J5 Nikon AF Nikkor 85mm f/1.4D Tokina AT-X Pro 11-16mm f/2.8 DX Nikon AF-Nikkor 80-200mm f/2.8D ED +7 more
toomanycanons Forum Pro • Posts: 14,167
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

Take your G12 next time and shoot at ISO 6400.

OP John Telleria Regular Member • Posts: 152
More G1 X shots

Here's a few more G1 X shots I took a couple days ago at the light rail station in Tempe and downtown Phoenix. These are JPEG's straight from the camera.

original-sized versions can be viewed at:
http://desertsky.smugmug.com/Arizona/2012-02-23/

also a few shots from a soccer game at
http://desertsky.smugmug.com/Sports/Soccer/Red-Bulls-vs-Pumas-2012-02-23/

-- hide signature --
 John Telleria's gear list:John Telleria's gear list
Canon PowerShot G1 X
Tom Z Regular Member • Posts: 476
Re: G1 X Low-light Concert Photos

PaulRivers wrote:

jonrobertp wrote:

Yeah, the blurriness looks like the result of noise reduction...stronger than I would have expected...

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.

-- hide signature --
 Tom Z's gear list:Tom Z's gear list
Canon PowerShot S90 Canon PowerShot S120
Keyboard shortcuts:
FForum MMy threads