170 + Ultimate Test Footage

I really have noticed hardly any noise on my 170, comparable to EX1 even, which surprised me (low noise proformance i mean)


It's certainly a great little cam.
I was DP on a short film this weekend and I was using just the bare 170 without my brevis adapter, on cineV, and while watching the dailies the director exclaimed "Holy sh*t those images came out of that little cam?"

He thought I was playing back footage on the 170 that I had shot with a much more expensive p2 cam.

It was quite flattering and honestly awesome that this little cam looked so good during the dalies. even the flat CineD gamma is low noise compared to the HVX
 
I see the noise you refer to, only in the first two shots, but I can't see much on the Vimeo beyond those two. You did however have +9dB on those..! :) Which is excellent! The rest spectacular.

I remember when you got one of the first 200A's. You immediately said that you found +6dB to be just about acceptable, and somewhere between 6 and 9 you would get the same amount of noise as the 200 exhibits. I think you might just be getting greedy. Not a bad thing but it seems your initial impression was right on the money.

If there is more noise hidden below the Vimeo compression then maybe it was just the light... what did you have on in that room?
 
A 150w HMI and a bootleg 4bang Diva with'a Half CTO on it.

I am reviewing my footage from the 200A... and going back and forth between the 170 in BROAD DAYLIGHT...

I just see a difference myself. But the 170 rocks.
 
Thanks! That's is still quite the sensitive rig!
I suppose something like a an additional 1K in there and there would be no need for 9dB and possibly only 3dB? Or am I way off?
 
USLatin said:
Thanks! That's is still quite the sensitive rig!
I suppose something like a an additional 1K in there and there would be no need for 9dB and possibly only 3dB? Or am I way off?
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Or a faster taking lens. Also, I think 6db would have been fine, but I had it set up for 9 for whatever reason.
 
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