Revenge of the Great Camera Shootout - blind test

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To be honest, I was not really pleased with how it was lit. I do understand that it was a stress test lit for DR. Someone commented on one of these Shootout response threads (I am starting to get confused by them all) that they got the "... Over lit corporate video look..." down pat. I personally think that it looked like a feminine hygiene products commercial.

Hehe that's exactly what I thought. I didn't even bother to make a note of which one I liked but some of them looked very video like and the soft organic looking one I assume was the 7D....What happened to the girl in the hot tub? That's the only way to properly test a camera.

We have the same quote too, are you the clone I've been searching for?

[David G. Smith]

Hehe that's exactly what I thought. I didn't even bother to make a note of which one I liked but some of them looked very video like and the soft organic looking one I assume was the 7D....What happened to the girl in the hot tub? That's the only way to properly test a camera.

We have the same quote too, are you the clone I've been searching for?

Ha, Ha, Ha, ..... I'm not the Droid you are looking for...


I do have to 'fess up about my comment. I have been studying and am becoming very influenced by the work of the great Gordon Willis ASC http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0932336/ and I kind of paraphrased him there. When asked about what he thought about the work of Haskell Wexler ASC on his second Academy Award win for "Bound For Glory" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074235/ Gordon said, "It looks like a beer commercial.". That really struck me. The more I study his work, and the work of Cinematographers like Roger Deakins ASC, BSC and Emmanuel Lubezki ASC, AMC I understand what he is talking about. The lighting in the shootout is exactly what he is talking about. That is just an aside, and not what the shoot out was about.. just sayin'.

[Zephyrnoid]

I was pissed. After choosing my 1,2 & 3, I thought I'd be able to see the identities of the contestants but NO? Silly.

[James0b57]

D800: 12.7 stops of DR, how much of that is usable depends on your taste for heavily posterized noise, and your fear of using lots of NR
http://vimeo.com/39899742
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Thank you.

[TomLenham]

I was at the screening in London last week, so I know which camera is which ;) and was amazed at how well the GH2 performed - I had it down as the Epic in my list. The big note for me was that all the cameras looked great, even the iPhone to an extent, considering the 2k screen. The F65 stood out as superb but the C300, Alexa, Epic and GH2 were all really really close. The camera technology is level between manufacturers - what really made these cams shine were the lenses they used (50k Fujinon) and the grading they got (Baselight). If you have access to those tools, you can make any camera look stunning.

[Grug]

C, E and F were my top three (in no particular order). I think it was the more natural looking colours that did it for me.

[Samuel H]

@Zephirnoid: they'll say which camera is which in the next part, in a few days. Just so I can make a fool of myself bitching about the defects of cameras I coulnd't pay for.

[evilthought]

GH2 is I

Around 18:23 in the video, they are interviewing the guys that are operating GH2. They show a scene where GH2 guys are talking about color correction. Look at the exact location of the actors







Now the only scene that exactly matches this scene (exact location of actors), is I


*GH2 is I* !!!

[Noel Evans]

My top two were F and H. No idea what they are however. Surprised theres not more takers for H. Skin tones on girl sold it a big plus for me.

[Samuel H]

I liked H pretty much, just not as much as A and F. Any of A, C, E, F, H, to my eyes, is a winner, a camera anybody should be glad to shoot with. And we're not supposed to be guessing which is which, but I think... H is EPIC, G is FS100, I is 7D, B is GH2, D is iphone. BTW: they recorded GH2 with and without hack, but I think they only show it with the hack: it's 9 cameras (iphone, GH2, 7D, FS100, C300, F3, EPIC, Alexa, F65), and 9 clips (A-I).