I think you really want to try to see what can be done. However an easy explanation is that in that dark place the LCD will look very bright compared to what it would have looked like in proper lighting. Think it over a few times until it dawns on you.
There is a tool I use to diddle with the brightness and contrast of video. It's called VIRTUAL DUB. If your video is in some MPEG, AVI or such you can use Virtual Dub and its filters to try to pull up the brightness and see if you can get something usable. I offer no support or teach Virtual Dub. There are sufficient online manuals about it.
Bob
I recently captured some footage for a friend of mine who's band was playing at a club. It was quite dar in there so after I got the camera all setup I opened the LCD viewer and to my suprise I could see the stage and the band very clearly.
The image on the LCD was actually quite beautiful in that I could see all the band members very clearly.
Again to my suprise when I caputered the tape to my computer the resulting image was very dark, no where near the quality of what I saw on the LCD.
How can this be? I thought the LCD was taking its picture from what the lens is seeing which should be the same as what goes on tape, no??
Can some explain why the dramatic difference between the LCD and the tape?
Thanks

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