C300: Sharpness setting on the C300 MKII?

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drummondb

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Anyone care to share what they're doing with the custom picture sharpness setting on the C300 MKII? I know on the older C cameras, the general wisdom has been to turn the sharpness all the way down to -10. Looks like all of the presets on the MKII have sharpness at 0, not -10.

Recently, I shot some C300 mkII footage where faces looked kinda waxy, like a bad bluray transfer where they scrubbed out all the grain and detail. I don't know enough yet about the MKII to know what I did wrong. I did have sharpness at -10 though.

But I'm looking at other tests shots I did at -10, and they look nice and filmic and detailed without being over sharpened.
 
When I have to shoot Rec.709 I dial sharpness down to -5 so it has some snap to it when it's turned around without any color grading, etc.
The 709 clients seem more inclined to like that look.
 
I think the 300 Mk1 in the '0' detail position tended to have more detail than the 300Mk2 does at the zero position. I regularly ran detail at at -7 or -10 on the Mk 1 . I once used an Abel Mk1 camera profile that was grotesquely over detailed .... On my Mk2 I do dial down detail , but -5 or 6 is about it . Detail is sort of subject matter dependent so depending on what is if front of the camera, detail setting might want to differ somewhat.
 
I guess I'm looking for a detailed image with no sharpening added. The thought was on the first gen C-cameras, -10 sharpness was the sensor with no sharpening applied. There were even some presets where sharpening was set below 0. But now on the C300 MKII, there are no presets of any kind that have sharpness below 0, so I'm wondering if 0 on the MKII is the "no sharpening" setting, and the negative numbers are artificially bluing the image.

I have no evidence for this other than I shot some footage at -10 sharpness on the C300 MKII, and faces look waxy. Not sure what I did wrong, but it looks worse to my eye than a C100.
 
The 300 MK2 sharpness setting in the camera has a range of -10 to +50 so maybe we could infer from that bit of information the '0' setting is really a base setting with zero sharpness added with the ability to reduce sharpness a bit and also to add quite a lot of sharpness?
 
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