Post your favorite FS700 Picture Profile Settings

[Gene Sung]

Mine are

Indoors / low light

Gamma: Cine1
Black level: 0
Black Gamma: Middle, 0
Knee: 90, Slope: +2
Color Mode: Pro, Level: 8
Color Level: 0 to -2. I might switch it back to 0 as it's pretty desaturated already.
Detail: -4
The rest is default

Outdoors / high contrast

Gamma: Cine 4
Black Level: +4
Black Gamma: Middle, +4
Knee: 90, Slope: +2
Color Mode: Pro, Level 8
Color Level: -2
Detail: -4
The rest is default.

At first I, loved how Cinegamma 1 sees into the shadows and was my favorite PP as it has this old school look. I didn't like the default values for Cinegamma 4 because it was more contrasty and over-saturated. With my tweaks above, the shadow detail seems a bit better and it looks kind of like Cinegamma 1, but with better highlights.

After a tons of pixel peeping tests though, Cinegamma 1 is much better than Cinegamma 4 in low light because there is way less blocking in the shadows.

I really wanted to like Cinegamma 3 after reading Art Adams article on Dynamic Range because Cine 3 has 12 useable stops (the most in the FS700). Cine 3 seems like it's somewhere between Cine 1 (great shadow details) and Cine 4 (great highlights), but I could not get it to where I liked the look. The blacks never felt right, but on paper Cinegamma 3 has the most DR.

http://provideocoalition.com/aadams/story/cameras_sony_fs700_dynamic_range_presentation/

Anyways, what Profiles do you guys like?

 

[stefanvanjaarsveld]

Thanks Gene. Personally I haven't played around too much with picture profiles, so I'm looking forward to what people post!
In your experience, does CineGamma4 make any significant difference with the bad color fringing along high-contrast highlight edges? or does it just roll highlights off more nicely than the others?
Anyway, we wont have to worry about that soon!

 

[Gene Sung]

Doesn't seem like PP's can deal with the color fringing, but the highlights in Cine4 do have more detail and better gradation than Cine1 when you pixel peep. It's NOT like: "WOW, Cine 4 is so, so much better for highlights!" But it does make a noticeable difference.

The default Cine4 settings, the black are very crushed so you need to bump up the Black Levels and Gamma IMO, otherwise, the image is too contrasty for my tastes.

But yes, soon there will be S-Log and that's probably all anyone is going to use (at least from the tests I've seen).

 

[Daomay]

Sorry guys I am not very good at setting up Picture Profile but I use Default Picture profile 2 for this one. I am still learning about shooting film and learning about the Fs700 myself. This will give a better ideas when you shoot against direct sun light. I hope it help.