No banding over HD-SDI

[Gugulino]

Last weekend I filmed a time-lapse from the sky with my AF100. I recorded directly on my Mac over HD-SDI and UltraStudio in DPX format and it shows virtually no banding in the blue of the sky.

Here are some TIFF images converted from the DPX files as prove:

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Unfortunately, on YouTube there is banding visible, when exported directly from DPX to YouTube and the internal Codec also shows banding:

Conclusively, the 8-bit SDI output is capable of resolving fine gradients as the blue sky.

 

[Ed Jeffersen]

I once read on the internet (probably here) that the "Planet Earth" series was shot 8-bit.