DVX100A - First day with camera, test results

S

Sledgeweb

Active member
Our DVX100A arrived yesterday (woot!!!)

My production partner came over and we shot some tests in the garage using scene file 6. We love the panny, but we still have a lot to learn about it! Will be going through Barry's book as fast as possible.

Here's some results from out first test (which includes some comparisons against our Sony DCRTRV27 1 chip camera that we used on previous tests)

http://cubit.net/films/spare/lightTest03.php

Let me know what you think. Also, let me know what you think of my color graded shots - going for a warm look, but also a noir style effect with lots of shadow. Should I be trying to get my final look more from the camera, or in post? I still had to give these images a nice S-curve in photoshop even though I'm use the cine-gamma curve setting in the camera. Perhaps lower the Master-Ped? Or, is it OK as is? I definitely like the adjusted curve in the Post Effect images (for what we are trying to do) but I'm not exactly sure how to get this in-camera (or if I even need to).

Thanks,
Sledge
 
Get out of the garage and shoot something outside! Gotta let that dvx breathe man, not keep her locked up.

The stills look well exposed, but I can't really tell that much difference between the dvx and sony, not on stills anyway.. Congrats and keep shooting.
 
Heh, thanks, and yes, we will get out of the garage! Hrm, we're sort of like a garage band, except we're garage filmmakers. Seriously, we will be shooting on location, we've just found the garage a good place to do some lighting tests, because we can get it completely dark easily, and that way we can really see what we're doing with the lights. But, lighting on location will be a different challenge all together!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top