Banding on Nikon D5000

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I'm having issues with banding in video mode on the Nikon D5000 is certain lighting conditions (flourescent). There is a small piece about it in the manual:

""Banding or distortion may be visible in the monitor and in the final movie under fluorescent, mercury vapor, or sodium lamps or if the camera is panned horizontally or an object moves at high speed through frame."

I was wondering if anybody knows of an alternate light source to those listed above which doesn't create a banding effect in video mode? Possibly LCD? Halogen?

Cheers, Russ
 
I think this is because of the flickering that is present with fluorescent lights. You wont notice it with your eyes but camera equipment can pick it up. Try changing your shutter speed and see if that helps.
 
CSB said:
I think this is because of the flickering that is present with fluorescent lights. You wont notice it with your eyes but camera equipment can pick it up. Try changing your shutter speed and see if that helps.
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Thanks for the reply.

I wanted to keep my aperture as wide as I could to be honest. I was just wondering if LED or Halogen lights produce a different result.
 
Russ MCR said:
Thanks for the reply.

I wanted to keep my aperture as wide as I could to be honest. I was just wondering if LED or Halogen lights produce a different result.
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Its only present on fluorescent lights as far as I know, the flicker is from the 50hz mains power supply. What was your shutter speed?
 
If you have banding then no matter what iso or aperture you need to shoot at 50 or 60 on the camera. That will eliminate it.

But if you have strobe light going off then there is no way to top it looking like it freezes for a split second then stops...
 
Had a go with a couple of inspection lamp LEDs (being the only light source in the room), and worked fine with no banding, and very little noise.

A slight problem was with the LEDs being relatively low power, it meant I had to put the light source very close to the subject. Following the inverse square law the light fell away quite immediately after the subject meaning the illumination was very localised.

Under street-lit conditions it wasn't clever at all.
 
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