Share your D7100 movie picture style

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psychoanima

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Hi all,

I am the proud owner of the D7100 and I don't know if you were desperate as I was while watching first movie tests recorded with this camera. You guess it: Horizontal noise, or bending if you prefer.
Of course I tried different picture styles for D7000 and they looked terrible because the sensor is not the same. The D7000's chip doesn't have same banding issues as Toshiba's on D7100.

So, I decided to experiment by myself with PictureControlUtility and create my own style that can satisfy my needs while shooting the video with my awesome D7100. My picture style can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/3jwjilqgqtf4sgi/D7l00K.rar

It's based on Neutral pic style. With this look I can go up to ISO 4000 and to enjoy image quality, where grain looks more film like and less digital. It has more contrast than usual Neutral style, BUT less horizontal noise, and in my case I can recover dark parts very easily in DaVinci Resolve.
Anyway, I open this topic because I would like, as many others I guess, to see from other videographers their custom D7100 Picture style(s), to share it here with the other users as an alternative for shooting with less 'bending' headache :)

Cheers!
 
I just use Samuell's Flaat pretty constantly. (Seriously, I owe you a drink, man). I've had zero problems with banding in the shadows. Highlight transitions are likely as good as you can get for 420.

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w/ Nikkor 28-70 2.8 AF

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w/ Nikkor 85mm 1.8 AF-D
 
With flaat I got huge amount of horizontal lines. Only crushing the blacks can solve the problem. Do you have the same problem or it's just my camera?

Cheers
 
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You mean FPN in the shadows? That can happen with the stronger versions of Flaat. In fact, that FPN is there with every other profile too (flaat or others), but those areas are darker or even clipped so you won't notice.


@MichaelCarter: glad you like it :)
 
Flaat is not like magic lantern or something. It's just one of your custom picture styles.

I've shot hours and hours of video with flaat and never had the noise problems.

Worst stuff I've seen from the 7100 is trying to darken skies... I'll make a luma mask from the same footage and use hue-sat and levels, and the sky just turns into dancing compression blocks and boxes.

But the 7100 IQ - for me - has been pretty phenomenal for compressed DSLR footage.
 
I haven't shot on the GH4, but based on what I've read, the D7100 will have about a stop or two more dynamic range. Also the D7100 is much better in lowlight, and has much better color. The D7200 has just been released, you might wan't to look at that as well.
 
Guys i can'tinstall the Alvarus profile; once i unzipped to a card and after i inser the card and push load profile: It says that are not profile on the cars. Strange thing, is the only camera that is giveng me issues instead the other nikons
 
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From what i read the d7200 for video doesn't seem to appear as a big improvement
Thank you for helping me out guys
 
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