Digital Bolex 2k DCI Cinemascope format sample
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combatentropy
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The colors sure are nice!
This was my first outdoor daylight shoot and my first grading attempt in Resolve 11, so very much a learning curve for exposure and correction. The D16 produces a far wider color gamut than sRGB or REC709 video can reproduce and some of these shots were overexposed a bit.
I've since discovered that the image has to be desaturated by about 20% or so to fit the REC709 gamut. This still gives fully saturated color for video. I've gotten better at resolving color casts in clipped highlights too.
The D16 is first a true digital cinema camera, it can reproduce the full DCI-P3 color gamut so all of us are still just learning how to grade it best for video.
A recent near sundown sky shot from my neighbor's driveway shows the DNG range vs 709 legal video pretty well. This was a correctly exposed ETTR raw clip, very hot but not clipped in the raw file.
Color space and gamut in Resolve were set to REC709. The first picture shows the image as imported. The second as corrected by the scopes to REC709. I'm still very much a neophyte when it comes to Resolve. This was a direct approach using the new dng raw tools and a gamma curve correction only. No luts.
combatentropy
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You must live in Switzerland or somewhere that the sky looks different
I've been making and watching video for 25 years, and without qualification, without doubt, this video has some of the most vivid and beautiful color I have ever seen from any digital camera ever. At the same time it is spot-on accurate --- its colors are stunning without any discernible tricks to make it look good at the cost of realism. The image is exactly how I see the world, except perhaps that the dynamic range has been tamed so that I can see more at once. Reminds me of using a polarizing filter. Real, only more so. Clear.
Razz, you did a fantastic job. The camera has a leg up on other cameras, based on what I had seen by others. Your samples take it to the next level. My only disappointment is that you aren't posting more often
I don't usually talk like this! (Look at my other posts.) I am gushing here, even though I don't own this camera, don't have plans to get one, yet, and don't know Razz16 personally.
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You must live in Switzerland or somewhere that the sky looks different
I've been making and watching video for 25 years, and without qualification, without doubt, this video has some of the most vivid and beautiful color I have ever seen from any digital camera ever. At the same time it is spot-on accurate --- its colors are stunning without any discernible tricks to make it look good at the cost of realism. The image is exactly how I see the world, except perhaps that the dynamic range has been tamed so that I can see more at once. Reminds me of using a polarizing filter. Real, only more so. Clear.
Razz, you did a fantastic job. The camera has a leg up on other cameras, based on what I had seen by others. Your samples take it to the next level. My only disappointment is that you aren't posting more often
I don't usually talk like this! (Look at my other posts.) I am gushing here, even though I don't own this camera, don't have plans to get one, yet, and don't know Razz16 personally.
Thanks for the compliments.
I live in the Appalachian foothills of South Carolina, Easley. The Appalachian Blue Ridge is classified as temperate rain forest. This year we are having a cool wet summer with an almost daily cycle of clear mornings followed by afternoon thunder storms building up from evaporation. The late afternoon skies have been really dramatic and the colors just insane with these huge floating cumulus thunder heads and sparkling clean air from the rains. Very hard to capture and reproduce.
I've had little time to shoot given the demands of work recently. But I really want to capture as many clean dramatic sky plates as I can while this lasts to have for stock footage.
I love how this camera captures color. The best thing about it for sure.
You must live in Switzerland or somewhere that the sky looks different
It more or less looks like the first shot. See here:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/Switzerland_Lucerne.jpg
http://pilatus.webtuning-cdn.ch/webautor-data/2/Pilatus-Gondel-Sommer.jpg
The two last shots don't match with the beginning. The first one drives the sky off to some instagram cyan and the clouds in the last shot go off to some instagram magenta, when they should be white. And the second shot is too much for the DR of this camera. The shadows eat out.
All valid criticisms. The second shot is a stop overexposed with some clipping, but there is still plenty of room to pull up shadows. The cyan cast in the first shot is very close to actual sky color, happens sometimes at that altitude after late afternoon thunderstorms. You get odd refractions from the moisture in the air.