Matching my old setup

KyleProhaska

Veteran
I'm trying to get internal settings that best represent my old setups color profile. As I look at all my old source footage, it handled exposure like a CHAMP and gave me a very pleasing image if I exposed properly. The AF100 is no different, but I'm curious what some others might think. The image below was naturally lit by a window to the left on an overcast day (I wish I could command the weather on shooting days lol).

As I pull the image into FCP or Premiere, I see that at the very brightest the image hits 70 IRE (or 60, I can't remember which). However, nothing is crushed. In fact, most of the bottom of the scale is resting above 5-10. The colors also are pretty saturated but not overly saturated.

What do you think? Does it look Cine-D to you? HDNORM? It's definitely not something that Bpress or Cine-V would give. Interested in your best guess. My old preset also favored warmer colors so I'll either need to dial up the WB a little bit, or warm the mids a bit more in post. Cine2 was the gamma preset on the old setup (XHA1) but I haven't been able to figure out what AF100 gamma properly represents that. I also remember having my master ped in the negatives on the profile...but even still the image rarely ever got crushed.

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I kind of wish I could see the reflection of the light in his eyes. Definitely not CineV or BPress, not enough contrast. I'd say HDNorm, which has always been my favorite for "flat." I would be very pleased with this image.
 
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