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- When RAW is not RAW
- Will Dragon bid farewell to 12-bit linear?
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Category Archives: Filmmaking
Film look with the F55 on “Uncommon Enemies”
Frame grab from Uncommon Enemies. “Uncommon Enemies” is a film written and directed by Alex Hatz starring Michael Cram, James Gangl, Melanie Scrofano, and AJ Vaage. It is one of the latest film projects I’ve been working on as Director of Photography using the Sony PMW-F55 CineAlta camera. Uncommon Enemies is a horror film set [...]
F55 exposure using zebras
Now that the F5 & F55 are trickling out in more quantities and Sony has yet to release a professional exposure tool in-camera there are growing questions on how best to set exposure for when working with the cameras. Obviously with an external monitor or even a VF by Zacuto or Alphatron you can use [...]
F55 slog2 s-gamut mode test
This frame grab was from my first test shooting the F55 using the 4k XAVC format in slog2 gamma mode and s-gamut color space. In post-production I applied Sony’s recently released slog2 to Rec709 LUT which was actually meant for the F65 but Sony says it should also work on the F55. Special thanks to Nate Weaver who discovered [...]
F3 SLOG LUTs
If you work with slog on the Sony F3 in-camera using the picture profile slog version or work with slog from the F3 in post, at some point you will wish there was an easy way to add a simple LUT to de-SLOG either in-camera or in post to help get an idea of what your [...]
Posted in Filmmaking, PMW-F3
Tagged as: LUT, picture profile, sony f3
Sony F55 trumps RED
Now that the Sony F5 and F55 are starting to ship it will only be a matter of time before we get to see some great (and probably some not so great footage too) from these cameras. Sony has really upped the ante with these new F cameras offering not only a RAW format with [...]
Canon C-LOG exposed, literally
There are many views on how to properly expose images on digital video cameras from use of waveform monitors, histograms and zebras, but anyone who’s familiar with my approach to lighting for digital acquisition knows I like exposing digital similar to how I would expose film in the sense of not being able to see the image until it was later [...]
Posted in Filmmaking
Tagged as: canon c-log, compared, linear, log, RAW, s-log
When RAW is not RAW
Since RED first introduced the RED One 35mm cinema camera in 2006 eventually we learned about its powerful 12-bit RAW format. Today more and more cameras including; BMC, FS700, F5/F55/F65, C500, ikonshkop, and D16 (in development) are capable of recording data directly off the sensor and storing the RAW data. “RAW” gets a lot of [...]
Will Dragon bid farewell to 12-bit linear?
With RED’s latest announcement that the new Dragon sensor may offer up to 20 stops of dynamic range, it has many wondering what’s in store for the insufficient 12-bit RAW based linear file format we’ve all known and grown to love since 2007. Will RED completely gut out it’s EPICs for the Dragon update – [...]
Movember Episode #4 DOP Notes
Welcome to my final blog entry on the Movember web-series and as promised in this final instalment we’ll take a look at how I did some advanced grading on the web-series in Adobe Premiere without the use of any third party plug-ins or add-on filters. Below is a file I created in Photoshop which features six distinct layers each containing a [...]
Posted in Filmmaking
Tagged as: #pmwf3, #shotonf3, adobe premiere, color correction, Dennis Hingsberg, DOP, Movember, notes, sony f3
Movember Episode #3 DOP Notes
I hope you’ve been enjoying all the Movember episodes so far and be sure to catch the final episode #4 during the last week of November. Remember you can watch all the episodes by visiting the LOEM Movember YouTube channel. In my previous Movember blog entries I’ve mainly been discussing DP and production aspects of the Movember web-series, so [...]
Posted in Filmmaking
Tagged as: #pmwf3, #shotonf3, adobe premiere, after effects, Alex Hatz, Dennis Hingsberg, DOP, Movember, notes, sony f3