Intercutting clean/adapter footage

[joe 1008]

I found this statement from Philip Bloom on an other thread and it would have been too off topic to ask my question there:


i did a drama shoot yesterday, 2/3rd on letus extreme using zacuto rails, 1/3rd clean. When shooting clean I used the above support. Worked very well. Here is a photo showing it in use

How does intercut footage from the EX1 look like? Can you, for example, do the establishing shot clean and the closeups with adapter or do you have to mark an esthetical difference between the two modes?

[matthew77]

Since all movies etc. are shot with a variety of lenses, depth of field varies a lot from shot to shot. And audiences don't seem to find it jarring. So with some simple grading from shot to shot to match contrast and perhaps (though probably not) some softening of one or the other lenses, I don't think there should be an issue intercutting.

[philip bloom]

i have different profile settings for a camera with an adaptor and one without. You just switch between them. I drop the detail to -5 for for the clean camera for instance and turn detail off for the adaptor cam.

They will always look different, that's what grading is for to even it all out.

[joe 1008]

They will always look different, that's what grading is for to even it all out.

Thank you for the reply everybody. If one can match the images to that degree by grading means that there are much more possibilites to use the camera. Philip, do you have any clip on your homepage where you intercut clean/adapter footage?

[philip bloom]

yep. the trench

[joe 1008]

Good work Philip, very coherent. You can only see the difference if you look after it. (I already watched that clip a couple of weeks ago not knowing that it contained clean AND adaptor footage and I didn´t notice it.) That opens up more options. (Intercutting run and gun with planned shots or doing the same with very low lit scenes...) But as alwasy such a dry comment on a technical threat doesn´t hit the point: It is simply amazing what you get out of this camera with an adapter.

[Lenilenapi]

Philip, why do you turn the detail off entirely with the adapter on and turn it back on when the camera is clean? I would have expected the opposite.

Lenny levy

[philip bloom]

i set detail to -5 when the camera is clean to soften the image a little.

[matthew77]

Phil,

I have found detail off to be about the same as detail -40. So -5 is actually "sharper" than detail off.

[joe 1008]

I suppose Philip means with "detail off" to set it at "0".

[DeeZiD]

I do always shoot with Detail=OFF.
The artificial image the detail setting produces really bother me.
Even with Detail set to Level=-10 the image looks like from a cheap digital cam. :shocked:


regards Dennis