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The Digital Bolex’s Low Light Abilities in This Video Are Jaw Dropping

Chris Gampat
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09/11/2013
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Last Updated on 09/11/2013 by Chris Gampat

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No Film School is reporting on some recently found Digital Bolex camera footage that is apparently showing off just how useful the camera can be in low light situations. But while that already sounds pretty cool, we need to mention a couple of quick facts first that will make this blow your mind even more.

First off, the Digital Bolex has a smaller sensor than some Super35mm sensor video camcorders. Second, it shoots RAW video. Third, the ISO range maxes out at ISO 400–meaning that you’re really not supposed to use this thing in really low light. But the video footage shown after the jump will show off just how much detail can be pulled from the video images.

Now to put things even more into perspective, lots of the video is shot in a subway. In NYC’s subways, ISO 400 will give me a 1/30th f1.4 exposure. That’s pretty slow. But the details pulled from the RAW images are mind blowing.

Our words won’t do justice to the footage shown right after the jump.

D16 at Night: by Kathryn Brillhart from Digital Bolex on Vimeo.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.