Recording at night
There is some info you should know regarding recording at night
before actually shooting a video in dark night conditions.
Recording at night does not involve the same requirements than
recording during daylight, and might actually become a big
obstacle unless you have foreseen a way of solving the
difficulties that this factor would imply.
It is important that you always record taking into account the
light of the environment in which you are since your video
quality will directly depend on this factor. In order to
properly record during night, you would need to use an
artificial light source. There are artificial light sources
which are specifically created for recording video at night and
which can be a great help and a very suitable way for solving
the problems which lack of light brings at the moment of
shooting a video during night.
Some camcorders have an infrared recording system which allows
its users to shoot their videos at night, and even during
complete darkness, achieving a good quality final product. These
kinds of systems function by illuminating the area you focus
your camcorder on with infrared light and then recording it this
way. If you are wising to record at night or in complete light
and do not worry about having a great quality final video, this
might be the best solution for you.
The quality of a video which was shot by using infrared
illumination is not the same than the quality of a video shot
under sun light, but it still can be very good and surely is
very helpful. Without this kind of systems, recording at night
can be a very difficult or expensive task to achieve.
Recording at night or under complete darkness conditions could
involve the use of very powerful light sources which can be
bought for this activity in particular. Using these artificial
light sources implies some difficulties such as having to carry
them and being careful with them since they can brake easily,
but the video shot by using them can be of a high quality when
they are properly used.