lowlight tests ISO 1250

[Ryan Hamblin]

All these were shot ISO 1250 with RED 17-50 @ T2.9

a slight curved added in redcine x and white balance set. some alchemy and a bit of grain






hope you enjoy

[Lorenzo Straight]

Very nice tests, Ryan. Did you add grain to all of the shots or just the last 2?

[Ryan Hamblin]

well to be honest I dont really remember... I know for a fact the first one had grain added. As for the rest im not totally sure. Ill check the r3ds in the morning and past back about it. What I do know is I was very surprised to get this great of results at 1250 out of the camera... I think it could be pushed a bit farther without having to look towards third party noise reduction.

[Benoît-Joan Clariana-Roig]

Too bad you added some grain : impossible to see if it's noise or grain.

Can you upload full resolution screenshots in .PNG or .R3D ?

[Yannick Verry]

I'd also be curious to see the same shots at 2000 iso.

[Ryan Hamblin]

Here are some at 2000, with no grain added

[Jeff J Daniels]

Thanks for the lowlight test. Camera looks great at these higher ISOs.

[Arnold F.]

Like the other thread wherein images were posted, I think I must mis-interpreting the results. Other posters say how amazing it looks but to me it looks worse than my point and shoot. Am I comparing apples and oranges. Should these images not be truly amazing?

[Bob Gundu]

I wasn't aware point and shoot can shoot 4K now. Please post your footage. I'm very curious.

Like the other thread wherein images were posted, I think I must mis-interpreting the results. Other posters say how amazing it looks but to me it looks worse than my point and shoot. Am I comparing apples and oranges. Should these images not be truly amazing?

[Noah Yuan-Vogel]

Like the other thread wherein images were posted, I think I must mis-interpreting the results. Other posters say how amazing it looks but to me it looks worse than my point and shoot. Am I comparing apples and oranges. Should these images not be truly amazing?

You should describe how your are interpreting the results if you want us to help you figure out whether you are mis-interpreting them. It is important to note that Scarlet's strength compared to its competition is probably NOT shooting low noise footage in low light environments. Considering that, these images are fairly promising, though it is a bit hard to tell in these 1K downscaled pictures. They do not appear to be noise free, but they do seem to handle highlights very well in these particular images, as would be expected since higher ISO settings on Scarlet offer greater highlight compression. It is also notable that T2.9 is not the fastest of lenses to be shooting at night with.

If your feel whichever point and shoot you own performs better than a Scarlet would for your purposes, I definitely recommend that you test that and use whichever you prefer. Most likely, if your image capture requirements are met by a point-and-shoot camera, you will not want to use a Scarlet. However, it seems unlikely that a point-and-shoot would out-perform Scarlet in any way at all for digital cinema motion picture acquisition purposes, which is the primary design purpose of RED's Scarlet-X.