Technicolor CineStyle: how should I set my zebras?

Samuel H

Samuel H

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I have a canon 550D with magic lantern, and I've suddenly fallen in love with Technicolor CineStyle

now, one thing this picture style has screwed is my cutoff levels for the ML zebras: I used to shoot trying to get in camera something close to my final image, and I used 10-245 as my zebra triggers; with Technicolor CineStyle, the 245 seems to be ok, but the 10 has become useless: even with the cap on the lens, no zebras will appear if I set this parameter at 16 or lower; make that 17, and it seems a bit too easy to get the zebras on the screen... or maybe I'm just a bit too nitpicky and 17 is just pefect... or maybe I'm too exhausted after my LUT investigation of today, so I'll just ask:

has anybody given some thought to this issue?
 
bumping this since is the exact same question, wondering what zebras settings others are using with Technicolor Cinestyle, specially for highlights, would 235 (92%) be a good setting?

I originally had it at 245 but noticed that i was getting slightly blown highlights on occasions that the zebras weren't showing on the cam.
 
I think a lot of people recommend (and this is what I do) setting of exposure, focus, etc... in standard or another picture style then switching to cine right before you roll.
 
yeah i actually set everything in Neutral mode and Magic Lantern automatically switches to Cinestyle when recording, in that case (Neutral picture style for example) what would be a good value for the zebras?
 
eiker_ir said:
yeah i actually set everything in Neutral mode and Magic Lantern automatically switches to Cinestyle when recording, in that case (Neutral picture style for example) what would be a good value for the zebras?
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Not sure, I don't use them, not a ML user. I have false color on my monitor.
 
I should point out that my honeymoon with cinestyle ended a long time ago... now I use Flaat, which I created to improve on the things I didn't like about CineStyle (too much noise in the final images, precisely because it leaves big chunks of the codec's color space untouched) - still, if you want to use cinestyle, and want to get an idea of what zebra thresholds you can use, the cinestyle chart here should be helpful: http://www.similaar.com/foto/flaat-picture-controls/technical-tests-1.html
 
Samuel H said:
I have a canon 550D with magic lantern, and I've suddenly fallen in love with Technicolor CineStyle
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I read this, was extremely puzzled then checked the date :grin:
 
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