The best low-light cameras in 2024: capture dark scenes with detail!

Best low-light camera
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The best low-light cameras allow you to capture clean, crisp and atmospheric night-time shots. With broad dynamic range and impressive high-ISO performance, these are the cameras that will control image noise to render poorly lit scenes with impressive clarity.

This list includes cameras and phones that have particularly impressed our reviewers for their capability in low light. I've included some of the best mirrorless cameras, best DSLRs and best compact cameras, as well as a couple of the best camera phones, aiming to give you a broad suite of options.

Jon Stapley
Jon Stapley

Jon is one of our go-to specialists when it comes to all aspects of photography, from cameras and action cameras to lenses and memory cards. Here, he has worked with our review team to put together this up-to-date list of the best cameras for music videos.

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Jon Stapley

Jon spent years at IPC Media writing features, news, reviews and other photography content for publications such as Amateur Photographer and What Digital Camera in both print and digital form. With his additional experience for outlets like Photomonitor, this makes Jon one of our go-to specialists when it comes to all aspects of photography, from cameras and action cameras to lenses and memory cards, flash diffusers and triggers, batteries and memory cards, selfie sticks and gimbals, and much more besides.  

An NCTJ-qualified journalist, he has also contributed to Shortlist, The Skinny, ThreeWeeks Edinburgh, The Guardian, Trusted Reviews, CreativeBLOQ, and probably quite a few others I’ve forgotten.

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