Best compact or Mirroless camera for capturing moving object in low light

[golfhov]

As regards noggin s comments I do not fully agree. We used some of the same equipment and came to different conclusions. This discusion would probably be well past your experience level.........or perhaps I am missing something here

Cheers and good luck

The joys of the internet is we can have different opinions and experiences

Correct. We both used some of the same equipment and came to different results. I am sure we will discuss it again some other time

I may well point out that the work I was doing for this was near enough pitch black - to the point where the 6D had moments of struggle.

And as I said that center point of the 6d is VERY good within the limitations of single shot.

Personally

, I think it's massively dependent on 'how low' the low light is..

Correct. It also depends on the subject and expected results.

In their budget the 6d MAY be one of the best options for them BUT I saw they are doing portraiture. They MAY like some of the other AF modes available in other cameras. Wider spread and better tracking 80d. Eye detect a7ii, etc.......dunno.....

 

[Tehilla]

Thanks for resonding, though I still don't know which camera to buy. What would you get of you needed a good home cam?

 

[golfhov]

Thanks for resonding,

Sorry I couldn't be more clear but I don't understand the question

though I still don't know which camera to buy.

Well what camera do you use professionally? Likes and dislikes?

This queston is just too vague. I know you want good AF in low light but the comparison camera is so poor that any mid range ILC will be an improvement.

The camera noggin recomend ed the 6d has a VERY capable center point but isn't much for tracking or continuous af (which you also requested). The 6d also uses most of your budget and leaves little glass money

What would you get of you needed a good home cam?

What is important to you? I know you said low light af on moving subjects. This is a torture test for every camera. You also need lenses and lighting. How good do you expect the results to be?

 

[golfhov]

Where do I lookup the response time when I look into a camera? Is the shutter speed? or the Flash sync?

Shutter lag is the ms between when you press the shutter button and when the camera actually opens the shutter. Shutter speed is simply a time value of how long your shutter is open. Flash sync applies to using a strobe or flash. The xsync is the fastest shutter speed you can use with a flash or strobe (not counting dedicated HSS flashes).

If we are talking about about the time it takes for a camera to focus, that is something else entirely. All cameras need contrast in order to focus. Low-light conditions mean low contrast conditions thus making it harder for any camera to focus. When using auto-focus, the camera won't release the shutter until something is in focus.

Depends on setting but there is no point in releasing the shutter I out of focus(99% of time)

Another reason for a good shoe mount flash: focus assist.

And do the amount of focus points contribute to the quality I'm looking for? thanks for directing me out.

You can only have one plane within the image in sharp focus. After that you have acceptable focus and then out-of-focus. It's a physics thing. With that in mind, you only need one focus point. Multiple focus points come in handy when shooting fast action such as birds in flight and you want the camera to track the action between various focus points. Multiple points can be handy in portrait photography when you want to shoot an extremely shallow DOF shot wherein the focus and recompose method wouldn't work as the focus distance changes.

This is ignoring how on sensor AF works. All the cdaf points and PDAF points(or dual pixel) are CAPABLE of focus BUT they are all pretty small. All of the models I am aware of are able to "boost" their low light AF capabilities by using more points(a larger section) at the COST of accuracy because now you are using a bigger region and MOST of them revert to the closest point in a region.

It is a common complaint on here where DSLR owners evaluate a mirrorless camera and then discount it because of an "issue" that they often cause due to not understanding how a technology works. Using a mirrorless camera in the manner you mention(smallest point) will give the WORST results in low light. Using the whole sensor will give the "fastest" but they may often miss their target.

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[Tehilla]

I just took out my 5D III and took a shoot of my kids in a medium light room, and yes, the quality is fine but not over the top like if it would have been outdoors or with a flash. I think I'm either gonna get the canon Gx1, which has a large sensor and will save me alot of pocket money, or the Sony RX100 V because of the 351 focal points, 4K video, and burst rate of 24 fps.

I still feel like the mirroless Sony A6300 or the fuji x T20 with the smalles lens possible will give me much better results than the above.