Author Archive for: ‘dennis’
The Next 35mm Revolution?
We live in interesting times. On October 15th marketing manager Peter Crithary for Super 35mm acquisition and technologies at Sony Electronics, USA first tweeted “Ahead of schedule. October 30, 2012. The New F”. Many of us including myself speculated it would be the announcement of a new 4k recorder to accompany the FS700 but then later more clues arrived indicating it would …
Apply LUT to SLOG without plugins
For those looking to work on SLOG footage without any fancy plugins there are some tools built into Adobe Premiere and After Effects that will help shape your highlights and prevent clipping them once you do further grading. It’s also great for working with cine gamma’s 1,3 & 4 where you are able to record illegal signals (over 100IRE). Adobe …
Graded 8 bit S-log on the F3
More on this soon but I am currently working on two cinematic style music video productions and decided to shoot them using the version 1.4 firmware provided S-LOG which becomes accessible under the picture profile on the Sony F3. Below is a before and after sample for preview. Note this is not the final grade and primarily done as a …
Auto-exposure on the F3 with manual lenses
I originally wrote part of this reply in response to some criticism the Sony 18-270mm zoom lens was receiving. In particular the “ramping” – which is experienced when zooming throughout the range of a zoom lens which does not feature a constant aperture throughout. The Sony F3 offers an amazing feature buried in the menu that was meant for automatically …
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