aburkefl
 Second Officer
Flight distance : 78612 ft
United States
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You can severely increase the ISO with your Phantom. Taking a tip from my experience in astrophotography - start out much lower than you think might be necessary and then "work your way up." It is so easy to alter the ISO in the Phantom. Start out with a number like 800 (or as close as you can get to that) and fly (with camera on) for about 15 or 20 seconds. Then, increase the ISO to the next "step" and fly for another 15 to 20 seconds - repeat until you max out the ISO.
You should discover pretty quickly that many kinds of lights are going to be surprisingly very bright - much brighter than you might have thought. You can tolerate less light more often than you might have thought *and* there'll be a lot less "noise" in your videos.
Don't expect it to ever be perfect. If you set the ISO with anticipation of extremely low light levels, you'll get some bright lights now and then that will wash out the video. If you anticipate the bright lights and adjust accordingly, then you'll miss some of the much lesser lighted stuff. It's a bit of a crap-shoot and you'll have to make at least a few compromises.
My brother complained one day that he couldn't get a decent picture of the moon. Taking a pic of the full moon with something that "fills up the frame" leads to the discovery that the full moon is a "bright object" and seldom needs much adjusting - photographically speaking. A lot of the lights you encounter in the night are the same thing/problem.
Enjoy and good luck with the night-time shooting.
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