Second Round of Blackmagic 4K footage

I am hearing a lot of people throw the DR word around, but honestly, isn't this thing supposed to be a stop less than the BMC. Dunno about you guys, but after shooting on GH2's, 7D's, a red here and there, this is still an improvement. 12 stops is plenty!
 
That's what I'm saying. People are commenting like it is an issue.I's better than what 90% of the commenters ever shot on.
 
It seems DR is just another variable to allow some people to procrastinate instead of getting out there and filming.

Unless you are making a documentary about how the midday sun lights up cave openings, 12 stops should be enough for nearly everything.
 
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Usable DR is 1.5 stops lower in the BMPCC in ProRes mode than in RAW mode, best case (at ISO 200, the difference is 2.5 stops) (here). And most people shoot ProRes just because.
 
This looks really good. I know it's vimeo and all but the crispness in those wides scenes is amazing, the water with the kids swimming is beautiful. I agree there's something very nice about the motion characteristics AND the skin tones are good and pretty warm.

Nice outdoor daylight and night pickup stuff but I'd love to see some well lit (tungsten) night interiors. So far, so good.
 
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The more I watch videos from various cameras, the more convinced I am that dynamic range is the single most important spec. Things start looking good around 13-14 stops of dynamic range... Obvioulsy of you work indoors, in controlled settingsit's less of an issue.
 
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Well, after starting with video, and it being digital back in 2004, progressing from GL1, XL 1, DVX 100, to HVX200, and then Sony PDW350 and HDW750p, everytime getting a boost in DR, to then also shoot film on Kodak vision 3, to recently using Scarlett (which is a stepdown in DR from film, but not by much) I can say that it is really really nice to have that 13 Stop, and more importantly, good roll off. I rather have a 11 stop with good roll off, than a 12 stop with bad roll off. This camera seems to have really good roll off.

But I can say, best thing so far to me is to shoot film 13 DR, in bright sunny Australian summer and knowing that I will have detail in the few clouds that are in the air even when I expose for the faces of people. The first time you can do that, it's like being allowed in to the pearly gates, and you don't want to go back. Because the reality is that if you have limited dynamic range, you need more light (money+time) to compensate if you want everything to have detail (some shots, and styles maybe don't need all that detail, but I generally prefer it).
 
Jay Birch said:
It seems DR is just another variable to allow some people to procrastinate instead of getting out there and filming.

Unless you are making a documentary about how the midday sun lights up cave openings, 12 stops should be enough for nearly everything.
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Geeks forgot the real world... :D
 
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