pulpfiction007
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Yes...ditto. Thanks Razz, much better!
Digital Bolex featured on Fox series "GLEE" tonight.
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Yes...ditto. Thanks Razz, much better!
The Kodak sensors have very saturated wide gamut color filters that exceed the REC709/sRGB gamut. You have to desaturate a bit for HD video. Refreshing change from struggling to get normally saturated reds with most cameras.
If a particular range of raw color hue and value is out of bounds for rec709 when the video is encoded response is similar to clipping. The maximum legal saturation value will be displayed. The results as in the compared frames above is flat, hot, cartoonish with loss of fine detail and color discrimination. REC709 is particularly weak with saturated warm colors. I find I'm dialing hot color images back by 12-15% or so. The color is still rich and saturated, but more refined.
16mman
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I graduated from Bob Jones University's filmmaking program in 2010, and they were still requiring all of their seniors to shoot their final projects on 16mm color stock. It was actually a blast, using an old Eclair. Last I heard they finally had to give film up when all of their students showed up day 1 toting their DSLRs along. But I actually really like the DSLR revolution. My Canon T2i reminds me of my 16mm film school days a lot more than any video camera ever has.
That is ridiculous. The very reason I don't use web footage to judge a camera image. Vimeo compression is a tad misleading lol.
I think it is more likely reasonable access to lab services that is driving film out of schools. LA, and NY are pretty much the only major centers generating enough volume to keep labs in business these days. My step son attended both NY film academy and graduated from SUNY Purchase film studies program two years ago. Both still offer the option of shooting film. I expect this would be of more interest to those focused on the technical arts of cinematography. Same is true of learning to shoot and grade raw digital, but it is the high end of digital cinematography.
Personally I'm done with shooting video. Raw workflow is not as cumbersome as many make it out to be. It has been several decades since I quit shooting 16mm film for TV, but video in all its many forms since has been an unsatisfactory creative substitute. Raw brought back the joy of creating images for me. I love the challenge.
