I tried out the KX in a store, and was surprised that contrary to all the excitement about its low noise, my photos were quite noisy even at ISO400. I thought that ISO200 was also alot noisier than my K100D! It was like comparing a compact with an SLR.
Also, when using the digital hdr for boosting shadows, they were very grainy and the whole thing was unusable. I thought a super low noise camera would be awesome for post improving dynamic range.
I later realised though that I was mostly using live view and seeing what settings worked in video, and read that the sensor can get hot and produce noise. I also had the shake reduction turned on for video.
So my question is if you want to take some videos while out then your photos will turn out noisy as a result?
Does anyone know if the SR will also make the sensor hot?
Can video be shot without live view?
Does anyone have any tricks for reducing the amount of noise on video? I remember one person saying for the nikon d90 they closed the aperture pointed at a bright light then opened the aperture again or something...
I know that it's not really a video camera but hey come on, it can take sweet looking video that's way better than HD camcorders IMO and that is worth playing with
Last edited by fan22; 12-05-2009 at 09:03 AM.