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The Samsung HMX-H300 did not capture video with the same level of sharpness as the competition from Panasonic and Canon. More on how we test low light sensitivity. Zooming in to frame our test chart, the H300 required 23 lux of light to hit 50 IRE on our waveform monitor. This is a decent score, but the HMX-H300 needed nearly twice as much light to record an image with the same brightness when we zoomed in a bit. Fully zoomed out, with its widest aperture setting, the H300 needed 12 lux of light to record a broadcast-worthy image (or 50 IRE for those who care). Since the Samsung HMX-H300 has a fairly wide angle of view for recording video, we tested its low light sensitivity both with and without using zoom. Look at the crops and see for yourself if you don't believe us. What shocked us, however, was that the H300's video image was even less sharp than its predecessor's, the HMX-H200. The fact that the H300 didn't capture as sharp of an image as the Panasonic TM90 or the Canon HF M41 isn't all that surprising, as those are two of the best mid-range camcorder's we've reviewed this year. Numbers in the cropped image appear blurred, as do the lines near the bottom of the vertical trumpet. More on how we test low light color.Ĭycling through the cropped images above, you should notice that the HMX-H300 did not capture video with the same level of sharpness as the competition. These scores represent the H300's best performance out of our three low light tests, but we wouldn't consider these scores any better than average for a mid-range model. The camcorder managed a color error of just 4.9 in low light (compared to 6.33 in bright light), although its saturation level was around 75% (down from 90% in bright light). In terms of color accuracy, the H300 actually did better in our low light color test than it did in our bright light color tests. Since color quality is very much a matter of personal preference, we urge you to look through the crops and comparison images on this page to make up your own mind about the color performance of the H300 and the camcorders we compared it to. It was greens, yellows, and browns, however, that the camcorder had plenty of trouble with, thus lowering its overall color score. Looking at the color error map taken from our testing (that image with the circles with lines attached), you can see that the HMX-H300 rendered blue and purple colors with good accuracy.