I have a HDD Video Camera that doesn't have night vision is there away to add it?

Question

JVC GZ-MG-130U HDD Hard Disk Camcorder, has night mode but not night vision.

Answer 1

You can buy third-party, external infrared lights that will likely fit in the "shoe" on top of your camcorder and light the scene with the infrared rays necessary to obtain that "night vision" greenish hue of otherwise unrecordable night scenes.

Answer 2

i have shot lots of great video at night. i simply use lights. be sure the white balance is set to tungsten (3200k) to get the right color.

Answer 3

there isnt a software to add the zero lux, or night vision if thats what you want. but like the above said, they do make lights for the camera

Answer 4

Ok, here's the story.

The standard "night mode" is a neat trick. Your average camera sensor, CCD or CMOS, is sensitive to far more of the light spectrum than you or I can see (and I'm an alien).

To ensure that the best quality image goes down, they put an infrared filter in front of the sensor, which prevents the active world of IR from affecting the image. So to get basic "night vision", you remove the filter and fire up an infrared light.

If your "night mode" does that, you can add an infrared light, usually an LED (your camera can see the flash from a typical IR remote control if it's sensitive to IR light). But if it doesn't, you would need serious surgery on the camera to remove the IR filter. You can find folks on the nets who've done this to cheap webcams and even  point-and-shoot digital cameras, for IR photography fun. But it would mess up the camcorder for regular use.