How do you expose your F35?
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Mike Krumlauf
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Kinda shocked nobody is sharing info about this...
NorBro
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Most people in video/film production will use a LUT so they can see a better representation of what the final product may look like (especially if they are editing it). If you're using one that's crushing the image then you're using the wrong one.
Even Sony mirrorless cameras have something called a 'Gamma Display Assist' function, which throws some contrast and saturation onto their S-Log2/3 to provide a better look. (This essentially is a LUT.)
Other than that, you'd receive instructions from a post-production facility to under/overexpose based on what they like and/or how a certain camera reacts to such a practice.
Per usual the best answer is testing yourself because if someone (for example) recommends you should overexpose by a stop or two you might as well then also ask for his or her post-production workflow because you don't know what else is being doing to produce the final product.
Even Sony mirrorless cameras have something called a 'Gamma Display Assist' function, which throws some contrast and saturation onto their S-Log2/3 to provide a better look. (This essentially is a LUT.)
Other than that, you'd receive instructions from a post-production facility to under/overexpose based on what they like and/or how a certain camera reacts to such a practice.
Per usual the best answer is testing yourself because if someone (for example) recommends you should overexpose by a stop or two you might as well then also ask for his or her post-production workflow because you don't know what else is being doing to produce the final product.
I personally always use LUT on camera or 7q, i have come to trust 7q a lot on exposure. I find exposure to be very sensitive on F35. There is only a small margin or error before you loose that nice fine grain or blow out highlights. But most cameras are this way. Test test test your own system until you know how it will act in any situation.
Ever notice on a major set, the AC control’s focus, an operator may move the camera, but only a DP adjusts the iris.
Ever notice on a major set, the AC control’s focus, an operator may move the camera, but only a DP adjusts the iris.
SJX
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I'm just using the LUT which comes in the camera. I see MUCH less highlight detail with LUT on. Why the LUT is final result if I won't grade to match the LUT? Its not final result in this case.
I tested myself off course. I have F35 for many, many years now. I just want to see how others do to compare. ;-)
SJX
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The LUT in your F35 doesn't crush the highlights? To me the internal LUT lose a lot of highlights. So I never use the LUT. So I see what I'm really getting. I was going nuts when shooting thinking the highlights were clipping. Then turned LUT off and it was everything there. So I stopped using the LUT.
SJX
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Yes this is how I do. I learned it from macgregor that you can trust F35 like film. But I wanted to see if anybody expose for slog for example. If anybody uses zebras to put the skin where slog puts it etc. I think is 38%?