After we take a brightly -
lit test shot of our color chart, we then dim the lights to a level you'd see in a bar or at dusk, and shoot again.
We did notice a little noise on the front - facing camera in our low -
light test shots.
Not exact matches
Somehow I got it to work a couple times during initial
testing, but when we
shot the video above, the Echo Dot simply could not turn on the
lights.
Early Saturday evening I was walking up 18th Street in Adams Morgan (DC) and stopped off at Columbia Station to catch the end of a jazz set, which turned out to be a good
test for the camera and microphone, since I was sitting on a partially covered patio in the bright outdoors and
shooting into a much more dimly
lit space inside.
When pinched with tweezers in a lab
test, it
shot green
light down its thin stalk.
But when she
tested the idea by pinching the stalk's other end, the
light changed direction and
shot back the other way.
And though his latest vehicle was delayed earlier this year due to reportedly bad
test screenings, «The Cold
Light of Day» will give him another
shot to convince audiences that he's the right choice to play Superman.
That would be enough to tide over fans anticipating the upcoming definitive release, but there are also shorter featurettes on costume design, theatrical
lighting, and film editing; a selection of auditions and screen
tests (though, it must be noted, not including Jennifer Hudson's — I guess some things had to be saved for later); an extensive still gallery; and, most intriguingly, pre-visualization sequences for the musical numbers
shot with dancer stand - ins.
Shot in one continuous take through an early morning streets of Berlin, director Sebastian Schipper's film is digital veritie at its absolute best; an exquisite endurance
test for the mind, body and soul, ticking along at not the speed of
light, but at the speed of life.
I
shot a video a while back checking fuses with a
test light.
BMW's
lighter, sharper Z4 is nearing its 2018 launch, and spy
shots of a more revealing
test car have emerged
Last week, we brought you spy
shots of the 2019 Ford Ranger FX4 undergoing
testing to take on the «off - road
light» versions of the Chevy Colorado Z71 and GMC Canyon All Terrain.
OLED Galaxy S8 Display
Shoot - Out Samsung Galaxy S8 An in - depth objective scientific display performance analysis and comparison of the Samsung Galaxy S8 Smartphone with extensive Lab
tests and measurements for the Adaptive Display, OLED Cinema, OLED Photo, and Basic Screen Modes, and including the DCI - P3 Digital Cinema Mode, HDR High Dynamic Range Mode, Blue
Light Filter Mode, and Always On Display Mode.
OLED Galaxy Note8 Display
Shoot - Out Samsung Galaxy Note8 An in - depth objective scientific display performance analysis and comparison of the Samsung Galaxy Note8 Smartphone with extensive Lab
tests and measurements for the Adaptive Display, OLED Cinema, OLED Photo, and Basic Screen Modes, and including the DCI - P3 Digital Cinema Mode, HDR High Dynamic Range Mode, Blue
Light Filter Mode, and Always On Display Mode.
The Kindle Fire HD has the highest measured Contrast Rating for High Ambient
Light of any Tablet that we have
tested in our entire
Shoot - Out series, and the Nexus 7 is a close second.
The Kindle Fire HD has the highest measured Contrast Rating for High Ambient
Light of any Tablet that we have
tested in our
Shoot - Out series, which is impressive.
After all, LittleBigPlanet 2 will be an interesting
test bed for Move, as it will be
light on
shooting and heavy on alternative gameplay mechanics such as platforming and level creation.
The way this
test works is that, when the breath air is blown in, infrared
light / radiation is
shot across the sample chamber and is absorbed by the ethanol.
I've
tested it up against the Pixel XL after the software update in low
light and in our office and my take is that the Pixel is much, much faster at taking
shots and has an edge in quality.
We
tested in various low
light shots against the Pixel 2, and other scenes against the iPhone 8 Plus.
Crops of
test chart images
shot handheld in the lab show that detail preservation on the V30 isn't quite as strong as that of the iPhone X in bright
light conditions, but it's not far off, and the V30 offers a little more detail compared to the Samsung Note 8 in bright
light.
You can see the slight color shading in the zoomed - in areas of this
test scene,
shot under 100 Lux tungsten
lighting (typical of the
light provided by residential incandescent lamps).
Some minor color shading also becomes visible in low -
light shots, but it's most noticeable in our studio
test chart
shots and very difficult to detect in any real - life
shots.
Fine detail preservation in outdoor and bright -
light shots is excellent and on par with some of the best performers we've
tested, such as the Samsung S8, iPhone 7 and Google Pixel
The Galaxy S8 achieves a good score for flash, offering fairly good levels of detail preservation in
test images
shot under all
lighting conditions.
Shooting across my local multiplex car park, a great
test of
light handling with everything from darkest night to retina - scorching neon...
On crops of
test chart images
shot handheld in the lab, the Vivo X20 Plus doesn't quite resolve as much detail as the Google Pixel 2, especially in very bright
light.
I took the iPhone X on my honeymoon — the perfect place to
test Apple's selfie prowess — and came back with some tips on how to
shoot great Portrait
Lighting selfies (as well as what to avoid).
And it's paid off, although the Xperia Z5 Compact is an improvement for Sony rather than a market - leading photography device: during
testing, some of the low -
light shots I took in the British Museum would definitely have come out better with another handset.
If you want a good Stage
Light photo, expect to be
shooting in Stage
Light from the start — and take a few
test photos to see what your background is giving you for a matte.
We couldn't fully
test the phone's camera abilities nor see if it can
shoot in a variety of situations, as the show floor itself was well
lit.
Credit: Daniel Bean And when I took the two devices into my unlit basement to
test low -
light capabilities, the S7 proved itself far more capable than the Performance, though neither phone managed to grab a great - looking
shot.
Focus isn't always as fast as we'd like, and so some
shots came out blurry during our
test period — an issue compounded in low
light when software stabilization kicks in to salvage every last photon from the scene.
Need to
test the day
light shots as well.
I didn't get the chance to
test it out yet, but the V Live did snap clear
shots in the brightly
lit demo area.
We took a variety of
test shots under various
lighting conditions, some on a cloudy day, some indoors, and others under irregular
lighting, which you can see in the images below.
We've
tested the camera on the nova 3e in the direct sunlight for this hands - on article but we will add more
shots taken in low
light to see how this camera fares in more challenging conditions.