Proper KNEE setting?

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Admir

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Hi!

I have been playing around a lot with the KNEE setting on the HMC.
When it's on high you get mostly a nice and properly exposed picture but the sky is totaly blown out. On midde/low the sky is visible but the object you're filming gets a bit darker and not as nice as with the knee high.

When you look at different shows on the TV/internet, I notice how in some shows you can see the sky without any overexposure, and sometimes the sky is totaly white and blown out.

When shooting outside with my HMC, what would be the best setting in your opinion? Right now I'm at medium since I guess that's the best, just to stay somewhere in the middle. How important is the KNEE setting when shooting inside?

Any experiences?

Thanks!
 
"I notice how in some shows you can see the sky without any overexposure"

They usually light the subjects more, using lamps or reflectors to bring the exposuses closer together.
 
Thanks for the input!

But how do they manage to get in all in proper visible exposure when shooting lets say a large field, where both the ground and the sky is visible?

I've figured out that the KNEE function has a lot to do with it.. A lot of people just leave it on auto, but that might result in sudden exposure changes in the middle of the shot..
 
By shooting during the proper times of the day you can achieve proper exposure of the ground and the sky. You can also look into Grad ND filters. I dont use the knees function as I only shoot Cine gammas. You could try the DRS function as well.
 
So the cine gammas will give you a milder exposure?

I don't use them because of my adapter. They allready give me cine-like picture, by adding more it gets just to much of the brownish-yellow-orange stuff.

DRS is a function that works on in 50/60 frames per second, right?
 
Cine-D will give you more "dynamic range" Most people stay away from it due to noise but I have been shooting it for a while now also with boosting the Master ped a tad to the plus side of things will help bring out detail in the shadows. Cine-D gives you a flatter look. your brownish yellow orange seems like an issue with white balance or you may have your chroma level cranked too high. But basically I'm always shooting CineD with Cine Matrix and I also crank down the chroma level in the negatives.. Sometimes will shoot CineV as well. I only have ever used Black Press a few times but lately I've been liking a more low contrast low saturated look over the high contrast over saturated.
 
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