Definitely a great deal of noise in the darkened club. Bear in mind though that's at 1280 ISO and running 12:1 compression. We were slightly limited by the f2.9 lens (iirc), so had to push quite a bit to get shots in that space. Having said that it was a VERY dimly lit bar. Most of the light in the main bar was coming from the red glow on the bar surface itself. The only light on the statue was coming from the moving "dance hall" lights in that shot, literally no ambient at that point.
We should have taken the sticks into the first bar where people were playing pool, could have made those shots, but whatever.
Definitely impressed with the frame rate abilities, but that was never really in question. Will be interesting to see how the camera runs at more forgiving compression settings.
I did a little digging on the relative shutter settings on the camera. Odd that it defaults to 1/<frame rate> even when going back to 24fps (it defaulted to 1/24 shutter according to the menu screen). There wasn't enough motion for me to see what the difference was in the wide shot of the red bar. When it goes up a stop is when we set it back to 1/24 (the jump cut), but I couldn't discern that based on motion. More research required on that.
I do know that the default absolute shutter for 24fps is 1/48 (or 180 deg). Also, it appears that we could have gone deeper into menus using just the touch screen.
Not a thorough test by any means, just a few hours of roaming around Mtn View and tossing some footage onto the card. I didn't think we'd be skipping rocks into a fountain either, but hey, when in Mountain View ....
Also, wish my hand had been out of frame for that one. Fountain shots seem a little over on my monitor, I imagine they might actually be a little over but not as much as my monitor makes them seem. Is that the case?
Either way, rad little camera, but we already knew that.
