Highlight Handling on Skin Tones with AF100 - Good Sample Clip

[Matthew Bennett]

Does any one have a clip that they can show where they recored in uncontrolled lighting, with little or no time to get to know a new camera, and caught a blown highlight that looks better than a AF-100.
And please show your clip with out any post work just raw footage. I look forward seeing it and finding what camera was used.

My first minute with an EX1, I shot some portraits type shots outdoors. The camera was probably set on the standard gamma (the worst IMHO for rendering skin) with sharpening cranked, etc..
The results were nice. I now use different gamma settings, but even in a worst case scenario, the EX3 didn't give me a raw deal on skin highlights...

CLIP:

http://www.qmediasolutions.com/guest...light_test.mov

[Ticheli]

Going into clip is very often a creative choice, not simply the result of carelessness or situational constraints. Clip is not inherently "bad," but a sudden, chroma-shifted explosion to clip certainly is. My video camera experience goes back all the way to the HL79, and the first video camera I owned that exhibited a beautiful, filmic slope to clip was the Panasonic VariCam. The Red Camera also has a beautiful transition into clip.

The AF100 clip I'd like to see posted is one with skin tones brought into clip, but with a nice gentle transition. It's said the AF100 has 10.5 stops of dynamic range; that should be enough to avoid the problems we've observed in the Japan tests.

Good shooting and best regards,

Leo

[Yak]

My first minute with an EX1, I shot some portraits type shots outdoors. The camera was probably set on the standard gamma (the worst IMHO for rendering skin) with sharpening cranked, etc..
The results were nice. I now use different gamma settings, but even in a worst case scenario, the EX3 didn't give me a raw deal on skin highlights...

CLIP:

http://www.qmediasolutions.com/guest...light_test.mov

Nice, It looks to me that in the shots on the basket ball court the highlights on the scarf are just as "blown out" as anything from a AF-100. It just show that any new camera takes some time with before one can "dial in" the right look.

[Steve Kahn]

Until the Andromeda modification was developed, I sent in my camera for modification, and then it was a 10bit 444 CCD skin tone love fest from then on in!!! Really, it's still my favorite camera for capturing faces + people, beyond even RED and other higher end CMOS devices

Wonder if we'll see a similar mod for the AF100 in a year or two?

[bgundu]

My first minute with an EX1, I shot some portraits type shots outdoors. The camera was probably set on the standard gamma (the worst IMHO for rendering skin) with sharpening cranked, etc..
The results were nice. I now use different gamma settings, but even in a worst case scenario, the EX3 didn't give me a raw deal on skin highlights...

CLIP:

http://www.qmediasolutions.com/guest...light_test.mov

ahhh the esplanade