C300 Highlight Handling

Do remember, also, that the camera's probably got picture profile setups, and just like any camera WITH such it's going to take more time than just grab-and-shoot to pin it down.

Between that and Canon's Log (which I think Vincent's short employed) there's probably a pretty basic explanation as to why this footage doesn't look nearly as nice.
 
Kholi said:
there's probably a pretty basic explanation as to why this footage doesn't look nearly as nice.
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Ha ha - I don't think any explanation is necessary. I've seen bad footage from just about every camera ever released. This was obviously just grabbed in a short amount time without a lot of planning or careful composition/exposure. It really doesn't say anything about the potential quality of footage out of the cam, but it's interesting none the less.
 
cowpunk52 said:
Ha ha - I don't think any explanation is necessary. I've seen bad footage from just about every camera ever released. This was obviously just grabbed in a short amount time without a lot of planning or careful composition/exposure. It really doesn't say anything about the potential quality of footage out of the cam, but it's interesting none the less.
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Exactly. Well said.
 
editman said:
Bad footage is always pointless if you try to show of a camera - and that's what we want :)
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Exactly. I wished that video had never left the edit bay. Its horrible.

To go back to the Yosemite shots, I believe that the sun was a little low on the horizon and at an angle, not front. In that situation its not that big of an exposure difference from where the actors stand in the open shadow to the top of the mountains lit by the sun. And this could have easily been graded back to a less extreme light, as long as it was recorded with enough information in the highlights, which clearly it was. But the shot is definitely graded.
 
Well these daylight exteriors are about as pedestrian as they come - even the opening shot of the Brighton Pier was about as unappealing as one could ask for - zero mojo, and forget the "vimeo compression"... I don't understand all the oohing and ahhing over that XXIT closing shot at Yosemite. Those mountains were seriously blown out.

Philip Bloom posted an initial "hands-on" with the C300 today. He says Canon is going to turn him loose with one in several weeks. That review will go a long way in helping form my decision on a C300 or F3.
 
jw2700 said:
I don't understand all the oohing and ahhing over that XXIT closing shot at Yosemite. Those mountains were seriously blown out.
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The oohing and aahing is about how well the camera would appear to be handling some very high-contrast situations. To my mind a graduated ND filter would be a no-brainer on something like that last shot of XXIT, but the fact that one (seemingly) hasn't been used suggests some seriously useful latitude.

At the low-end of the cinema-style camera market, that's the sort of thing we want to see.
 
I think bad footage does one good thing, it reminds you that the camera doesn't do all the work.

I'll have to admit, I thought that was a set extension of the mountains as well, I do them all the time to make boring locations look a bit better. However, looking at the BTS, I think it's real. And I have to admit, I like how it looks.

I'd say the one thing that looked odd to me on the screen cap is how much better exposed the actors looked to me then the mountains in the back, but, in thinking about it a lot more, I think it was an artistic decision to separate the backdrop from them, and I like it. I didn't really notice it when I was watching it as opposed to a screen cap.

Whoever wrote Canon's highlight handling code in their cameras, I want to buy them a beer or twenty. I just love how it looks.
 
jw2700 said:
Well these daylight exteriors are about as pedestrian as they come - even the opening shot of the Brighton Pier was about as unappealing as one could ask for - zero mojo, and forget the "vimeo compression"... I don't understand all the oohing and ahhing over that XXIT closing shot at Yosemite. Those mountains were seriously blown out.

Philip Bloom posted an initial "hands-on" with the C300 today. He says Canon is going to turn him loose with one in several weeks. That review will go a long way in helping form my decision on a C300 or F3.
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What's your video card?

Serious question, not a smarmy one. Because, with my advanced video card disabled, the shot doesn't look as good.

When I turn the advanced GPU on (it's an nVidia Mobile GPU) it looks incredible.
 
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