On Camera LCD settings

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creconfilms

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Hello,
I was wondering, if it is a low budget shoot and your are forced to use the cameras LCD, what settings should be used for the LCD to be able to best judge the shot. Contrast, brightness etc....
Thanks
Artin
 
Focus assist and and set YES under the EVF SET on the setting menu DISPLAY SETUP Screen.

Plus use the bottom.

Review p 23 of the manual
 
Actually, I would suggest having your eyesight checked and if you need glasses to acheive 20/20 wear them. I am fortunate to have near perfect vision and can lock good focus. No kidding.

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I'm not worried about focus. But if you have contrast and brightness set wrong on the LCD, your MXF files will look different then what you tought. It might end up being to dark because the LCD brightness was up. You can adjust that in post, but you'll probably introduce some noise to the image and that is not what I want.
 
Thats why you cannot trust your lcd to gauge exposure, brightness, glare etc all mess with the appearance of your video. I trust it to gauge my white balance but thats about it.

You have to rely on the zebras and marker to correctly gauge exposure (Im talking run and gun, not controlled shooting environments).
 
Horses for courses but I have mine set at 100% and 70%. The 100% tells me when the video is blowing out and the 70% tells me when skin tones are properly exposed. There are a lot of posts on the board about exposure using the zebras and marker functions, try a search and read up.
 
Also be aware that blowouts in HD (not sure if its the gamma or HD) result in very harsh clipping, there doesn't seem to be any roll off so, for example, shooting snow, you get flat areas of super-white where you over exposed, with hard edges. Shooting to SD previously, you would get a little roll off which looked much softer and forgiving.
 
The clipping is a function of the gamma curve and knee (if available). If you shoot Cine-D, there is no knee protection, and you have to watch for clipping yourself.
 
So would the cinelike_D setting be different from the same setting found on the DVX? As I remember it, the cinelike_D gamma on the DVX is optimized for dynamic range and does offer knee protection, unlike regular cinegamma. Also, which is the most commonly used of the two on the HVX -- the V or the D cinegammas? I'm also wondering which is the more preferred setting on the DVX as well.
 
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