DVX100A at Lake Michigan

[donbarzini]

Finally had a couple hours to take my two week old DVX eight blocks from my home to Lake Michigan. I tried out various settings and applied Magic Bullet to some footage. Here are a few grabs:

http://img86.exs.cx/img86/1766/beach1.jpg
http://img86.exs.cx/img86/7190/splash1.jpg
http://img86.exs.cx/img86/7415/dof.jpg
http://img86.exs.cx/img86/3406/sunset9.jpg

[Bsmith]

do you live in Michigan?

[donbarzini]

Wisconsin.

[Michael_Lieberman]

I've noticed that the DVX100A has far richer browns and oranges than the not-A. Even shooting in a forest, my DVX100's browns are slightly more bland. Did you color correct?
Either way, both are awesome cameras -- viva 24p revolution!

[donbarzini]

Yes, I did do minor color correction with FCP. The last grab is with Magic Bullet, sunset grad I think. Here is the original:

http://img80.exs.cx/img80/8053/sunset3.jpg

[Bsmith]

those are awesome...I'm going to head out there now.

[disjecta]

Wow, that's weird, I posted here earlier and it completely disappeared. Anyway, I was commenting on how beautiful your shots were. Nice to see a kindred spirit on the board * :D

The last shot was a little severe in its effect in my opinion. Before I knew what you had done, I was trying to figure out how the water could be that color and the sky be a completely different color.

[Zach Lien]

yeah i think there's an invisible hitler moderator around here. my posts were getting deleted too. ;)

nice shots dude. like them a lot.

[donbarzini]

Thanks for the responses guys. Yes, disjecta, I know what you mean about the water's color in that last photo, it looks like a giant suer backed up. I was like a kid with a new toy using MB ;D Here are a couple more grabs:

http://img23.exs.cx/img23/7474/rockbeach.jpg
http://img80.exs.cx/img80/5989/trees.jpg

[Rich Lee]

great shots! pretty impressive how sharp that horizon is....are you doing something in post to get it that sharp?

[donbarzini]

Actually, on the wide shots I only applied a minor color tweak with FCP's 3 way color corrector for white balancing purposes. I was using a Tiffen 85 and a Schneider True Pol in my mattebox, I was a little off on my white balance but not by much. All these shots were using the Cinelike_D Gamma and CineMatrix, I do like the Cinelike_D Gamma but I think I need to adjust the knee which was set to auto because if you notice on the rocks and tree, there is some blowout. This reminds me of when I had my original DVX when using CineGamma which had no knee and caused that ugly sort of posterization on overblown highlights.

[disjecta]

I may be wrong but I don't think you can adjust the knee with that setting.

[donbarzini]

Yes, I noticed that I have 4 knee choices (auto, low, medium, high).

[Rich Lee]

ah, cool man, lookin good, cant wait to see something in motion.

peace

[disjecta]

Interesting, I didn't think you could change the knee using the CINE settings...I seem to remember trying but the camera didn't allow me to choose another option.

[donbarzini]

I'll have to double check but I'm almost positive I had the knee option. It may be when I switched the matrix to normal though.

[gualbert]

Well, not in my camera for sure... ??? :P Can you really change them?

[donbarzini]

Gualbert, do you have the "A" model? I'll have to double check when I get home but I think disjecta is right, I may have noticed you can change the knee when you are in normal gamma mode and normal matrix. All my frame grabs were using Cinelike_D and Cinematrix for sure. I'll post some movie files when I find a place to store them.

[taubkin]

I don't hink you can do that also, Don...

...but you still can save them applying a "desaturate Highlights" filter.

That second grab is beautiful. I would risk saying it's elegant.

[donbarzini]

Just got home, I was wrong, no adjusting the knee using the settings I was. Only when I switch the gamma to normal, then I can adjust the knee. Thanks for the replys.

[Chris_00]

Wow Actually shots from my home town! 8) I lived in Kenosha up until like 1 months ago, and now i'm in RAcine. :P