Use of Red Epic MX / Dragon in low light.

[Niklas.S]

Hi,



First of all i'm not really sure if this is in the right section but let's try.

I'm going to shoot a video of some snowmobiles at night, with lightsuits and some simple LED lights for cars. Here's a short one we made with only gopro's ( it was for a competition and we had to use gopro )


http://vimeo.com/118370220


Do you think we have enough lightsources in this video to shoot good quality with the Epic? Or should i go with something more simple, like the a7s?

Thankful for all the help i can get, regarding both lights and settings for the camera to do good low light.

 

[Paul E. McCarthy]

I love this light suit stuff. I think you will be ok. get super speeds or masterprimes, shoot at 1600asa and 360shutter and the lowest compression ratio possible. you might get some interesting streaking from the 360shutter.

 

[Niklas.S]

thanks for the response. I think i'll only be able to use canon L glasses though. Maybe a RED 18-50 T3 if the budget holds it. What difference will the shutter angle do?

 

[Jordan Buck]

Seems like it puts out quite a nice amount of light.

Your going to get a lot less blown out on the MX/Dragon, If you have to go L lenses, try and get the fastest one you can, 24-70 2.8

Shutter angle is essentially shutter speed, a 360 degree shutter is going to let more light into the camera but will also give you a bit of a streak and blur as its a slower shutter speed.

Have a little read of this -
http://www.red.com/learn/red-101/shutter-angle-tutorial

Where was the go pro one shot? The conditions look amazing.

 

[Niklas.S]

Thanks for the advice! As it seems right now, i think we'll go with the a7s due to our lack of money and resources for more lighting. All though i heard there are some problems with blue/violet light thats clipping on a7s, and in our case, we got alot of blue/violet light.

The go pro shots are from Sweden. We had perfect conditions for the competition, think we got like 60 cm of fresh snow in like 30h or so.