new kid here.
I am not a expert at all on this. i have been trying to play around it but it seems way to advance for my brain this week.

question: PC1000 has the color slow shutter for night shot, but it does not able to see anything in dark, it take color shots when there are little lights there, but the key issue is not a infrared night shot function and still need lights.

I have bought the sony HVLIRH2 infrared light for the PC1000, is that will help on night shot function? at least i can see in the dark, right?

 

Most decent video cameras have the ability to adjust the shutter speed and iris gain for shooting in low light. You have a choice of being super grainy, or having color, but blur from the slow shutter speed on anything that moves. You get color, but no movement, as it tries to capture the maximum amount of light per frame. I've got a very expensive professional camcorder that can shoot in 1 lux, basically a single candle. It gains everything up and shows color, but is extremely grainy. It does this by utilizing three 1/2" CCD chips and special processing circuitry. Most consumer camcorders use 1/4" or 1/3" CCD chips.

I'm not familiar with that model of infrared light, but what are you trying to do??? You want to be able to shoot in absolute darkness??? For what reason, spying???

The only way to get nightshot footage is in black and white or green and white, it's not pretty video, but you can see your subjects.

Just using infrared light on a camera that doesn't support Night Shot won't give you the ability to shoot at night in absolute darkness.

Richard

 

try spying!

i was planning to use in the Dragon.
you are right, the slow shutter will make the motion very slow and i will not able to use it when driving at all. that's why i try to look for an infrared light for it. i thought the light will improve the quality a little bit, at least i can see and nothing will be in slow motion.

 

Not sure about the infrared light. There are video cameras you can buy just for seeing in the dark though. I might bring a few if I can get my hands on them in time. =) Supposed I can see several hundred feet ahead.

Richard

 

got it figured out.
called sony and finally found a experienced person and got my answers.
it is a very interesting tests.
use camera to capture the infrare lights from the remote controls. if you can see it, that means your lens is infrare sensitive. than buy a infrared light to help gain vision in dark.
now is just the matter of how clear will it be?
i guess i have to buy it and put in in my MINI and drive around to find out.

Now i finally able to capture the wild life in the dragon without disturbing them! maybe it is a good idea!