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That is beautiful. If they can increase the dynamic range to bring detail to the highlights it is basically perfect. I've never seen a valley look like that w

That is beautiful. If they can increase the dynamic range to bring detail to the highlights it is basically perfect. I've never seen a valley look like that with a blue sky above with stars in it. Truly incredible. The 5M ISO rating is pretty funny. 1/40 f1.2 ISO 5M.

Animats 10y ago
The dynamic range is so good that it will work in daylight. They even point it directly at the sun. There's some blooming, but not much.
- 19eightyfour 10y ago
  Yes I was impressed by the sun shots. That was really incredible. However at night the headlight fan on the road is detail-free. This could be improved. That was what I meant saying the DR could improve. Thinking about it some more from a technical perspective ( and I know absolutely nothing about the technology in this field ) it seems the camera really suffers from strong point light sources ( headlights, streetlamps, so on ), and I know that these sources often have specific known spectral characteristics ( color temperature and so on ) -- and I'm wondering if a way to improve the performance here is to somehow detect the spectral signatures of a range of such light sources, and somehow cap the contribution these can make to the brightness in the image...so preventing these highlights from burning out the details, and increasing the apparent dynamic range -- even when the camera is pointed down road ahead of a vehicle with headlights on.
return0 10y ago
more footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5ZQd11z_3Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5ZQd11z_3Q
- 19eightyfour 10y ago
  Thanks! Just watched your link now. The camera is so sensitive that it matters whether the starlight is "overcast" or not. Which I found amusing. I like the production values of that video. The (appropriately, for this product) triumphant music. The long blank-face titles with abstract technical terms, concrete locations and hard-boiled scene descriptions: "Human in desert". Then cut to some shot of guy walking away from the camera in the desert alone under starlight. In full color. Sort of new wave cinema. Not at all suggesting any fakery with this next comment but I am wondering how the humans in the videos didn't trip over bushes and things. Maybe they edited that stuff out, or their natural night vision was warmed up.

Animats 10y ago

The dynamic range is so good that it will work in daylight. They even point it directly at the sun. There's some blooming, but not much.

19eightyfour 10y ago
Yes I was impressed by the sun shots. That was really incredible. However at night the headlight fan on the road is detail-free. This could be improved. That was what I meant saying the DR could improve. Thinking about it some more from a technical perspective ( and I know absolutely nothing about the technology in this field ) it seems the camera really suffers from strong point light sources ( headlights, streetlamps, so on ), and I know that these sources often have specific known spectral characteristics ( color temperature and so on ) -- and I'm wondering if a way to improve the performance here is to somehow detect the spectral signatures of a range of such light sources, and somehow cap the contribution these can make to the brightness in the image...so preventing these highlights from burning out the details, and increasing the apparent dynamic range -- even when the camera is pointed down road ahead of a vehicle with headlights on.

return0 10y ago

more footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5ZQd11z_3Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5ZQd11z_3Q

19eightyfour 10y ago
Thanks! Just watched your link now. The camera is so sensitive that it matters whether the starlight is "overcast" or not. Which I found amusing. I like the production values of that video. The (appropriately, for this product) triumphant music. The long blank-face titles with abstract technical terms, concrete locations and hard-boiled scene descriptions: "Human in desert". Then cut to some shot of guy walking away from the camera in the desert alone under starlight. In full color. Sort of new wave cinema. Not at all suggesting any fakery with this next comment but I am wondering how the humans in the videos didn't trip over bushes and things. Maybe they edited that stuff out, or their natural night vision was warmed up.