Cine-like ?

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jackal2513

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am i missing something ? when i use the cine gamma setting (and pretty much the stock scene file settinsg of master pedestal etc..) the resultant picture loosk fine on teh LCd but is VERY dark once captured. If I try to lift it in post in teh gamma curves then all that happens is that I start exposing the dv compression and bringing out any grain even more.


regards


Rich
 
Obviously either your camera's LCD or your computer's LCD is showing you the wrong image. Calibrate your camera's LCD to color bars, then calibrate your computer LCD to the same bars.
 
and also, no matter how hard you try, hardly you will be able to set up your pc monitor to get the same response of a CRT monitor (eg TV). a TV monitor is the right place to judge your images, not the PC monitor.
Especially if you shoot indoors with poor lighting, chances are that your cine-like shot footage on a TV will still look good, but it will look dark and dull on a PC monitor, just for the poorer ability of the device to reproduce the TV gamma.

anyway, when shooting outdoors usually there's enough contrast to make the images look good even on pc monitor.

Andrea
 
nope


regardless of what either my PC lcd or teh DVX100 lcd is doing ..... shooting at the stock scene file settings should not produce images that are so underexposed, whether outdoors or indoors.

i've viewed them on a domestic, on various PC's both captured and directly from tape.

as for my own aforementioned pc lcd, ive viewed hundreds of images on it that have been professionally graded and filmed out as final frames of major feature films .... i.e. when something is wildly underexposed its pretty darn obvious
 
Are you using MANUAL IRIS?
If so look at the marker setting, are you getting a reading of between 55% up to say 70% on faces or whatever you are focusing on.

Better yet, what do your Zebra's tell you as far as exposure is concerned - trust these measurments (marker or zebra's) and post something. If the marker is giving you a good reading I'd trust it over what the LCD looks like (until you get this sorted out).
 
My rough guide to proper exposure in the field (w/o a waveform):

I like to keep my zebras at 100%, Bring up the iris until they show, then bring them back down until they just "glisten" in the whitest of whites.

-j
 
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