Originally Posted by
smasha
@colleen - thanks for the screen-shots.
in your other video, is that a teletype or dot-matrix printer in the background?
5500 OTF lumens
?!?!? that's more light than a truck! do you ride in caves? on my sub/urban rides, 20% of that would be more than i'd need.
as for CMOS not responding to LED light, i haven't heard that before. it may depend a lot on the color temperature of the light... so the (cheaper) bluish-white LEDs may not show up as well as more white LEDs.
That blue object in front of the fence is a shopping cart left behind from a homeless, I hope he was not sleeping anywhere near by, otherwise he would think it was sunrise. It was at least 100 or morre feet away. Way back in the backround are building several stories high. Those building are located a block away.
I did that for fun to see what it is like having that much lights and took a little detour when I turned on all the lights and shot that video. I normally run only 1000 OTF to 2000 OTF. I am running in the higher side (2000 OTF) because of the limitation of video capability for night shot. I do believe that CCD sensor are more better for night shot while CMOS sensor are generally use for their low power consumption. It's too bad that the Contour Lens are coated to block IR, otherwise it would be a nice option to use a IR light to enhance nightshot video like those used in security cammera.