General What are your thought on the Cinema Picture Style?

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James M

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I know it's only $19, but it stops me trying it out just to see what it's like. I'm attracted by the "no need to grade" selling point for quick jobs and personal stuff.

So, is it worth a damn? Does it perform well in some situations and not so well in others?

Your thoughts, please.
 
I haven't tried that one, but I'll use this opportunity to pimp my Flaat once again... This was shot with Flaat for Nikon (which is not exactly the same as Flaat for Canon), it's a final product that has not been graded, and I think it looks awesome: https://vimeo.com/45465731
 
James M said:
I know it's only $19, but it stops me trying it out just to see what it's like. I'm attracted by the "no need to grade" selling point for quick jobs and personal stuff.

So, is it worth a damn? Does it perform well in some situations and not so well in others?

Your thoughts, please.
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I have it and to be honest I've never used it. I always go back to cinestyle or neutral flat with the contrast and saturation all the way down. The point about "no need to grade" is kinda silly to me. Anytime I'm shooting something that I don't need to grade, meaning I'm not getting paid enough to put in the extra time, I just use standard.

I will give that it has a unique look. Whites and greys have a sort of chrome element to them to my eyes, edgy too. If I had a project that called for that EXACT look, i think might would use it.
 
I also suck at color grading, that's half of the reason Flaat was born: I was just not able to get nice skin tones out of "neutral with minimum contrast" or Marvels Cine, I always ended up with grey, clay-looking people. Also: Flaat can be left ungraded and it will look nice, but it's not designed to be left ungraded: it's designed to be easy to grade (nice colors out of the camera, not extremely desaturated, and with a near-log light-response function).
 
I use Cinema Picture style and I turned to it just because one of the Greatest Wedding Cinematographers uses it on his work, Jason Magbanua. He also uses Davinci Resolve with it as well...So he must be doing something right.
 
Wow Joe, I'm not really a fan of the wedding stuff, but wow. Not just a fantastic grade job, but the editing was spot on... I kept watching just to see what shot was coming next. Just...... Wow.
 
Ryan-Guy said:
I have it and to be honest I've never used it. I always go back to cinestyle or neutral flat with the contrast and saturation all the way down. The point about "no need to grade" is kinda silly to me. Anytime I'm shooting something that I don't need to grade, meaning I'm not getting paid enough to put in the extra time, I just use standard.
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Grading is not free in terms of quality. It is almost always better quality-wise to grade in camera instead of dealing with 4:2:0 subsampled image in post.
Obviously, this is not always practical. But if you are going for the greatest possible quality, you shouldn't be dismissing in-camera grading so easily.
 
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