cardmaverick
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Just got my hands on an SGPro! Special thanks to Antar Hanif (SilverWolf) of Baltimore for letting me use his unit. Check out his site, www.antarhanif.com
I'm very impressed with the unit, especially the rock solid construction and super fast set up.
I did use the 60ccM filtering while shooting the charts, which does make a difference in clarity. It's interesting, without it (I shot some non res chart material), you still see the adapter grain, but color grain is more apparent. No doubt in my mind the color grain is from the louder red and blue channels. With the filters on, the image looks like a very nice matte photograph.
I'm dropping the CA correction, upon closer inspection, the ground glass screen seems to introduce a third issue technically. I'll just note the DVX focal length, and re shoot the chart at each adapters required DVX settings. You can still correct the CA, but it appears to be easier just correcting the adapter footage only, instead of applying several templates to one shot.
........always learning!
I'm not prepared to release the charts yet, as there may be an issue with my print. I used a silver halide print. For some reason, the 16:9 box didn't fill my monitor correctly (maybe its a printer resizing issue???). I"m not sure if thats how its supposed to be or not, but I kept the framing consistent anyways. I'll look into this more when I have time.
I'll be shooting a short film next weekend, I might use an adapter on this one.
I'm very impressed with the unit, especially the rock solid construction and super fast set up.
I did use the 60ccM filtering while shooting the charts, which does make a difference in clarity. It's interesting, without it (I shot some non res chart material), you still see the adapter grain, but color grain is more apparent. No doubt in my mind the color grain is from the louder red and blue channels. With the filters on, the image looks like a very nice matte photograph.
I'm dropping the CA correction, upon closer inspection, the ground glass screen seems to introduce a third issue technically. I'll just note the DVX focal length, and re shoot the chart at each adapters required DVX settings. You can still correct the CA, but it appears to be easier just correcting the adapter footage only, instead of applying several templates to one shot.
........always learning!
I'm not prepared to release the charts yet, as there may be an issue with my print. I used a silver halide print. For some reason, the 16:9 box didn't fill my monitor correctly (maybe its a printer resizing issue???). I"m not sure if thats how its supposed to be or not, but I kept the framing consistent anyways. I'll look into this more when I have time.
I'll be shooting a short film next weekend, I might use an adapter on this one.