F35: F35 to silmulate film as much as I could -

eddavid

eddavid

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This whole Digital Bolex thing has launched me on another crusade - to try to take footage from the f35 and make it seem organic as I can - and in the natural darkness of NYC at night - let me know thoughts - I still think I want to test out Mr. Bolex and see how he feels too.
 
very nice, I think it's far more organic than the A7S night videos you made a few months ago Ed, easy to compare to that because they are a similar style. It's really hard to judge night footage through web compression. My favorite F35 shot was at night by a fireside right on the edge of the camera, on my monitor playback from Hyperdeck the shot looked incredible, once I put it on youtube it was a black mush loosing all the fine detail. In any case I like what you have done.

Care to share the post workflow? Also what does your handheld rig look like you really are able to wipe that thing around?
 
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How did you achieve the reflection in this frame? It's part of a very interesting flare that looks like a roll of film running out.
 
Very nice but it would be nicer to see a cut that is more than 2 seconds long. This is very frustrating to watch for me and does nothing for image/camera evaluation.

Also, is that noise in the lower 15% from the F35 or more vimeo compression and film fx?
 
The F35 has the most wonderful noise/grain to it - but I find anything lower than blu-ray resolution destroys it completely and even at that compression it can get lost
 
I'll enable a download.
Yes the shots are very quick because it's a mood film too - not just a tech demo. trying to caputre some kind of rhythm with the music and night and trying to simulate a good night out in NYC

don't worry there are shots that hold much longer - all of them do - I'm just trying to do it to show that I do fashiony stuff
 
I regraded this and I dedicate this to my new online friend, Shoot56 - who inspires me every day. Wait, no, he's not that nice.
This is to Kassim who told me about some different film print emulations and I like it better. More natural skin tones

 
thanks - I shot way underexposed

next time if I shoot at night with too slow of a set of lenses I need to shoot at 444 RGB that will give more information to make a cleaner grade - I think that would have helped in the grade.
 
Good idea Ed - I also found it is important to resist the temptation to increase the gain in camera during darker scenes. I found better results pushing in post than in camera. You can open the shutter just a little (I think 210 degrees or so) without it being noticeable, if your subject isn't moving. Gives you just a bit more.
 
JMtheDP said:
Good idea Ed - I also found it is important to resist the temptation to increase the gain in camera during darker scenes. I found better results pushing in post than in camera. You can open the shutter just a little (I think 210 degrees or so) without it being noticeable, if your subject isn't moving. Gives you just a bit more.
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I'm not into opening up the shutter - I think Michael Mann's Collateral scared me :)

it's incredible how much you can raise luma with 4:4:4 - it blows my mind away.

But I should do a test.
 
Believe me I am incredibly anti-open shutter, but 210 is not very noticeable. I'm not fond of raising gain, opening the shutter or going beyond T2, but when you need to, you need to.
 
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