12800 ISO Video Performance of Sony A7 IV in Dark Forest

Finding and photographing wildlife in the winter is quite hard and if you do it in dark days when there is no enough sun light, it is 2 times harder. Nowadays there is no snow and light in Finland and it is very difficult to spend time outside with photography. By this way, I decided to push Sony Camera's limit and tried to record bird in dark forest. I needed to increase ISO to 12800 , it was quite noisy as you would guess but still usable, I also used noise reduction in Davinci Resolve. It helped quite a lot also. I highly recommend. Dark forest in Winter is most challenging situation for videography but still you can get some relax and enjoy the birds and relaxing , peaceful time. Sony A7 IV dual iso is also very useful and reduced noise much more than normal. Maybe 12800 iso is not something you will do many times but still you can use if you record something worth.

Gear used in this video:

Cameras : Sony A7IV
iPhone 17
DJI Osmo Pocket 3
Drone DJI Mini 4 Pro
Lenses : 200-600 mm G Lens , Sigma 24-70 mm DG DN Art
Mic: Rode ntg & Rode Video mic GO II
Camera Backpack: Peak Design Travel Backpack 45L
Tripod : Manfrotto
Edited with Davinci Resolve Studio 20.0


Music used in this video: Epidemic Sound.

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