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Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 07-01-2011, 04:01 PM  
WG-1 grainy/noisy video.
Posted By Wingnutt
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those are modes, not presets, just like video is a mode.

When in video mode there are almost no options to mess with.

I returned the camera for a refund.
Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 06-28-2011, 08:14 PM  
WG-1 grainy/noisy video.
Posted By Wingnutt
Replies: 16
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Well, for one, nothing ever has or will happen to any of my videos. Secondly, You cannot deal with an alligator gar while its alive. They are absolutely destructive and have some serious teeth. Third, they have a special ability, their air bladder can double as a lung, they can live over 20 hours out of the water. So the options are to either shoot it, or throw it alive in your boat, and hope it doesn't destroy everything you own, then get it home and clean it.. still alive. I prefer to put them down quickly.

I don't think anything is wrong with the camera, I just think it is not very good in direct sunlight. It shoots good video under all but the brightest conditions, and takes good photos. I'm going to try and source a polarizing filter for it, and see of that helps. I dont think sending it off for another will do anything but leave me without a Point and shoot for a month.
Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 06-27-2011, 03:12 PM  
WG-1 grainy/noisy video.
Posted By Wingnutt
Replies: 16
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Well I just got off the phone with Pentax. Despite the camera having the threaded attachment for filters, there are no filters (that he was aware of) for this camera.

Guy on the phone suggested returning it, 4-6 weeks turn around.

I'm not doing that.
Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 06-27-2011, 02:59 PM  
WG-1 grainy/noisy video.
Posted By Wingnutt
Replies: 16
Views: 4,964
LOL, shit like what? fishing?




Yea the second video is not bad at all actually apart from the lens flare its getting from the sun reflecting off the water.

The second video was is less bright conditions, we were not surrounded by water and were somewhat in the shade, and the camera seemed to handle that relatively well.

I'm thinking I could probably fix the issue with a filter, I just don't know which to try, any suggestions?
Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 06-26-2011, 09:49 PM  
WG-1 grainy/noisy video.
Posted By Wingnutt
Replies: 16
Views: 4,964
Setting the EV compensation lower actually seems to make it worse, while raising it actually decreases the presence of vertical lines, but makes the colors even more washed out. I took some video today in conditions that were less bright and did not have as much of a problem, though the sunlight reflecting off the water caused lines/flare to appear pretty bad.


Its like the camera is not capable of shutting out enough light in very bright conditions.

Here is another example, this video came out much better, it was partly cloudy and we were not surrounded by water, my buddy is shooting.. literally :)

But note the flare caused by the sunlight reflecting off the water.
















You Tube



Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 06-26-2011, 05:29 PM  
WG-1 grainy/noisy video.
Posted By Wingnutt
Replies: 16
Views: 4,964
Indoors, the video is not bad at all, Its as if outside in the sunlight the camera is taking in more light than it can handle, so everything is washed out.

I took a test video through my sunglasses and that fixed the issue, so I think I could purchase a filter that would take care of the bright light issue. Though that is not something I should need to do.

I emailed pentax, will post if I get a reply.
Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 06-25-2011, 02:14 PM  
WG-1 Hands-On Video
Posted By Wingnutt
Replies: 17
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I have had mine 2 days. The video quality in bright light is absolutely horrid. Indoors its "ok" not great, but outside in sunlight all videos have a purple tint to them and LOTS of line noise. I posted a thread asking for help with this problem, and posted an example video showing it. No responses yet.
Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 06-25-2011, 02:11 PM  
Anyone tried the WG-1 yet?
Posted By Wingnutt
Replies: 20
Views: 8,065
I have had mine 2 days, Have big problems with the video quality. In sunlight all videos have a purple tinge to them and have vertical lines, its very very bad, not even up to par with a cell phone. See my thread (with no reply's) I have an example posted.
Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 06-25-2011, 01:29 PM  
WG-1 grainy/noisy video.
Posted By Wingnutt
Replies: 16
Views: 4,964
:mad:
















You Tube





Not what I expected.
Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 06-25-2011, 01:15 PM  
WG-1 grainy/noisy video.
Posted By Wingnutt
Replies: 16
Views: 4,964
Let me revise my statment, after playing around with it some more and testing in indoors and out.

The video quality of this camera is horrid. All videos, no matter what have a purple tinge to them, and all of them have vertical line noise, the video quality is very very bad.


I will post an example asap.
Forum: Pentax Compact Cameras 06-24-2011, 01:58 PM  
WG-1 grainy/noisy video.
Posted By Wingnutt
Replies: 16
Views: 4,964
I just today recieved my WG-1, and I am a little disappointed with the video quality.

I have it on 1280x720@30 and even outside in bright sunlight the video quality is rather poor, its very grainy and noisy when I view the Video files on my PC.

This is right out of the box, no adjustments or changes made.

Are there any tweaks or tricks to get better video? or any software that might help?
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