Canon 5D - Natural Light Video Test

KyleProhaska

KyleProhaska

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Just got my 5D a few days ago and I've tested it enough to get a feel for the camera, and the post workflow.

Shot this all natural light, very low ISO (if not 100), and used the Neutral profile (with slight adjustments re: some internet posts). Overall I'm very happy with the results. I used 5DtoRGB to transcode the footage and after testing yes/no I decided to turn on the Add Noise filter in the program. Most of the walls in this footage had lots of stair-stepping in the gradients because of the codec and it needed some serious help to be presentable. Adding noise in post to footage that didn't use the Add Noise filter resulted in noisier footage to get the same results, and even then it didn't perform as well. I'll likely use this program and it's Add Noise option for any and all problematic shots because even After Effects couldn't give me the same result this thing did.

Codec is the greatest setback of these cameras no doubt (the 8bit especially). Either way most of this is just a contrast adjustment and some saturation boost but nothing more.

Thoughts?

 
What a GREAT example of how having a sensor THAT HUGE gives EXTREME low DOF (whether you like it or not)....I can't believe that this was (at the lowest) F 4.0!!??? Wow that's shallow for F4.0!!
 
very nice tests. What was your sharpness and saturation settings? i like the skin tones, did you manual white balance?
 
Yes it was F4 throughout, and I might have gone higher for a shot or two but I don't think so. I was using the Neutral setting but edited it by turning the sharpness all the way down and the color down 2 clicks. The white balance wasn't set manually, it was set to the normal daylight setting (the sun picture :P).

Very little CC in post. Just some saturation boost and some contrast balancing.
 
HHL said:
What a GREAT example of how having a sensor THAT HUGE gives EXTREME low DOF (whether you like it or not)....I can't believe that this was (at the lowest) F 4.0!!??? Wow that's shallow for F4.0!!
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don't forget he had a zoom on there. DOF is also affected by focal length. if he shot something at 80 or 100mm, the depth of field is tiny due to compression alone no matter what the aperture is
 
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