Blown highlights?

[alaskacameradude]

I've only had the new addition to the family (FS700) for a couple weeks. But in that time, I've shot a pilot program for Outdoor Life network and
the Sportsman's channel in remote Alaska, shot two destination weddings on a glacier, and shot a couple dance performances, and a couple kids
sporting events. I'll be posting videos soon, but just thought I'd note one thing. Many people say that the highlights on this camera are crap.
One of the weddings I shot, was on a sunny day on the glacier....lots of reflected light. I 'seemed' to have blown my highlights. But when I
went into post....I got a nice surprise. Here is a before and after frame grab, not sure how they will come across after jpeg compression and
recompression on this forum, but if it works, you may see why I was surprised. Didn't loose the highlights after all.....

 

[Gene Sung]

Hey Alaska,

Great save. Were you shooting with Cinegamma 4?

 

[freshTEA]

Yeah, I would also like to know your settings, im trying out the slog2 now with some success but yeah its still 8-bit and kind of hard to do heavy saturation but im still content and im very positive towards CD's 7Q

 

[cuervo]

Nice save...but, in the process the shadows were crushed. The right way to go about fixing this footage is to play with the gamma curves, adding some custom shaping of the foot and head. If that doesn't work, then pull a luma key on the shadows and invert the matte so you don't crush them when you pull the hiltes down.

 

[alaskacameradude]

Hey Alaska,

Great save. Were you shooting with Cinegamma 4?

Yeah I sure was. Also, I'm pretty sure it could look MUCH better. I literally did this fix in 10 seconds. I shot this last night,
and the couple is leaving Monday so I'm trying to jam out their video today, as I start 9 straight days of shooting for American
Eagle tomorrow, and I have to get the whole wedding done today. I didn't play with the shadows much or anything, I just pulled down
the highlights and the overall a little bit. Just nice to see that highlights that look like they are gone, can still be hanging around in there......

 

[PrimeHD]

The FS700 does seem to have quite a wide latitude. However, advise seems to be: shoot within the 4-stop range, whenever possible. Do you agree?

Also, I do think that FS700 has a problem with extreme contrast: specifically car's tail lights in the evening/night come out outrageously video-ish with FS700, IMHO.