Digital Bolex in Times Square and other recent samples

maranfilms said:
Wouldn't be bad if the skin tones and everything red wasn't orange. Is this straight from camera? Especially the stripes on the American flag, their orange.
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The color of the light in the square has a strong intermittent orange cast from the advertising displays and some of the street lights. You are seeing color under very mixed light conditions. So don't put this on the camera. It separates fine color differences very well, including color casts from lighting. There are some fairly neutral skin tones in the sequence too when lighting conditions favor that.
 

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Like Razz16mm said, the orange cast likely is from orange lights. This is an RGB Bayer sensor, not OGB. From Kodak. The color is likely spot on. You just have to light and convert it right. From what I've seen, most people are converting it poorly. The third image above is me desaturating it until it looked natural, 45% down. This is the main mistake I see in Digital Bolex videos. Razz16mm says it records a wider gamut, and people are flubbing it.

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Why complain about color anyway? Color correction is as old as color TV, and it's cheaper and easier than ever. With RAW it's especially flexible.

Things to complain about nowadays, because its intrinsic to the sensor: dynamic range, native ISO.
Things not to complain about, because it can be fixed in post: color, highlight roll-off, film look.

Here's a D16 video that I thought was film because Razz posted it in the film forum first and it looks completely amazing:

 
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You could have just asked me for some of the Times Square DNGs;) but yes, the red shift is easily taken care of. The TS footage was not graded. IMHO this camera is the closest thing to film on digital.
 

So the story behind this: There was a piano left under the Brooklyn Bridge and my idea was to shoot a friend on the beach during sunset. Well Tuesday I got there and there was NO sun, high tide that encompassed the piano and 50 people surrounding me. So I made the decision to battle the waves (literally flying at me with no space to dodge) and the sinking sands using a cruddy Manfrotto Compact Tripod. I spent 5 minutes getting some shots. So this is what I got, I did a light grade and found it extremely easy to do. Hopefully I can get on my Davinci panel machine and really work the colors.

Bottom line though, this camera is A TON of fun to shoot with and has interesting concepts put into it.
 
Looking good. Reminds me a bit what I was getting out of my HVX200 plus Letus 35mm Adapter - in a good way.
 
That Air BNB commercial is probably the best footage I've ever seen from this camera, bar none. More than likely wouldn't be a choice for me purposely, but at least we can see it's workable :)
 
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