Eric Coughlin
Veteran
I haven't seen much in terms of 120 fps slow motion samples, so I figured I'd share this rather basic test video I did to give an idea of it. Earlier I had filmed a brief test video in which I found the slow motion to be very soft, but I had the shutter set to 1/120 instead of properly at 1/240 and also had the ISO around 4000 I believe. For this test I set the shutter properly to 1/240, had the ISO at I believe 800, aperture I think was f/2.8, using the Canon 24-70 f/2.8 II.
Lighting was with a Litepanel Astra through diffusion, along with cruddy overhead fluorescent house lights. Looks pretty sharp to me. I didn't do any wide shots, so I can't currently comment on the sharpness of wide shots. For example, I know the GH4 is reasonably sharp at 96 fps in tight shots, but looses sharpness on wide shots.
I believe this was Wide DR. It is ungraded, so I'm sure sharpness could be added in post as well.
Password is "C300".
Full-size: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2016/01/12/C300MarkIISlowMo2.png
Full-size: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2016/01/12/C300MarkIISlowMo3.png
Full-size: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2016/01/12/C300MarkIISlowMo4.png
Full-size: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2016/01/12/C300MarkIISlowMo5.png
And for reference, here is a frame grab I posted a few weeks ago which I had set to 1/120 shutter at around ISO 4000 at f/1.8 on the Sigma 18-35. I also was using a Lexar 3400x card for this shot which I later exchanged for the Lexar 3500x cards which I used for the above shots, with the latter being officially approved by Lexar for the C300 Mark II. I don't know if this would have any effect on the image quality of the slow motion; it almost seems like it would, as I wouldn't have thought 1/120 shutter and ISO 4000 would have made the images that much softer.
Full-size: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2016/01/12/C300MarkII120fps.png
Lighting was with a Litepanel Astra through diffusion, along with cruddy overhead fluorescent house lights. Looks pretty sharp to me. I didn't do any wide shots, so I can't currently comment on the sharpness of wide shots. For example, I know the GH4 is reasonably sharp at 96 fps in tight shots, but looses sharpness on wide shots.
I believe this was Wide DR. It is ungraded, so I'm sure sharpness could be added in post as well.
Password is "C300".
Full-size: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2016/01/12/C300MarkIISlowMo2.png
Full-size: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2016/01/12/C300MarkIISlowMo3.png
Full-size: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2016/01/12/C300MarkIISlowMo4.png
Full-size: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2016/01/12/C300MarkIISlowMo5.png
And for reference, here is a frame grab I posted a few weeks ago which I had set to 1/120 shutter at around ISO 4000 at f/1.8 on the Sigma 18-35. I also was using a Lexar 3400x card for this shot which I later exchanged for the Lexar 3500x cards which I used for the above shots, with the latter being officially approved by Lexar for the C300 Mark II. I don't know if this would have any effect on the image quality of the slow motion; it almost seems like it would, as I wouldn't have thought 1/120 shutter and ISO 4000 would have made the images that much softer.
Full-size: http://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2016/01/12/C300MarkII120fps.png
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