Night Sky and Night shooting

**MotorcycleBoy** · 02-21-2009, 07:13 PM

I want to shoot night sky clouds and i tried a friend's SR36E with no luck (it has a nighshot and super nightshot functions), everything was black although there were visible clouds and stars.
I am very new to video cameras in general. Is it possible to shoot night skies???? Do I need to do some tweaking? Is the SR36E not the right one? Which camera does stuff like that?

Thanks in advance

**Mark W** · 02-21-2009, 08:03 PM

Not a chance.

I suppose if you had a good low light SD DV camera ( more sensative typically than HDV ) and used a tonne of gain you might see a few stars but the image will be very poor - all grainy.

If you want clouds at night just shoot them in the day and make it look like night in post.

**MotorcycleBoy** · 02-21-2009, 08:07 PM

Was watching some extraordinary time lapse videos at YouTube - mockmoon2000's Channel (they use digital photo cameras i guess and they let them take photos every 30 secs, then edit them, and then combine all pictures to a movie) and wondered why a video camera wont shoot the damn stars ! lol

Anyway, thanks a lot for the info

**Mark W** · 02-21-2009, 08:19 PM

Yea - I am sure they use stills cameras like you say.

**TFV** · 02-18-2011, 09:17 AM

Originally Posted by MotorcycleBoy

Was watching some extraordinary time lapse videos at YouTube - mockmoon2000's Channel D

I like the way they , he / she has achieved tracking in the time lapsed clips... there's me now watching it over and over again thinking it has be key framed into a motion path in post production to get the effect of using a glide track .