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Our parent company has a much better one than the X27 and we use THAT one for video production. It's like people who buy $100,000+ Phantom 1000 fps High Speed cameras and use THOSE for commercials and cinematography. When a Red Camera or Arri Alexa-65 (rental only) setup starts gets into the $400,000 arena when you put on Zeiss Master Primes or Leica Summilux-C lens setup, who cares about price? Ya might as well buy the best-of-the-best!
And a $30,000 mil-spec nightvision camera CAN and has been used for pro-level video production (i.e. NatGeo wildlife documentaries, night skiiing, snowboarding, skydiving imagery, etc). You use whatever works for a given production. When your sensors starting getting above 20 microns per photosite with specialized photo-counting/photo-multiplier materials, full colour RGB nighvision at Midnight is as good as Daylight.
The only issue becomes the thermal and electrical floor noise of the sensor itself which can be mitigated by super-cooling the sensor with a liquid coolant, extensive DSP (Digital Signal Processing) and much larger photosites (i.e. into the 50 to 100 microns per photosite range!)
The only OTHER issue is that you need infrared and/or UV pass-through optics which means you need full EM band pass through QUARTZ lenses or plastic such as an Optically Clear Acrylic (still blocks UV-C band) or Aluminum Oxide ceramic such Sapphire (full UV and IR pass-through) which are very expensive compared to Fluorite Glass.
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