Shot a short film on the a7s last weekend, just to test it out and see what works and not. A dimly lit room ofc to test low light. Only stills for now with a quick dirty grade (too much for my taste and not matching too good, but I also wanted to see how much I could push it. It's quite flexible), just levels and curves, no LUTs or film convert. Will do proper grade when I've edited the short. Used Kholi's SLOG (really like it, man!). Canon 24-70 f/2.8. Started out with FF, but switched to crop mode when I felt that I needed more tele. Didn't really see any difference, stayed at ISO 3200 all the time.
Awesome. That saved me some time: I was about to test exactly the same thing: how much can I over/under expose a normal image before it becomes unusable? It seems the answer is +2 and -2, any more than that and the image starts to break. Not bad at all, but a bit of a letdown, I was hoping for one or two stops more of range (this allows me to shoot somebody in an open shadow and have a white sunlit background that is not clipped, but if it is a relatively closed shadow, like a narrow street or something like that, the difference with the sunlit areas can easily be 5 or 6 stops, which means you have to choose whether you crush the highlights in the background or you get a noisy subject and try to fix it later with NR).
