Another Frame Grab.

[John Brawley]

Here's a wider one to whet the appetite. No lighting here either. Just brutal high contrast.

http://wp.me/p19HXQ-lA

jb

[Martti Ekstrand]

Wow. Stunning!

Here's a two and a half-minute quick-n-dirty grade in CS5.5 AE using just Red Giant Colorista II

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[Martti Ekstrand]

And just for kicks my "make it look like 5DmkII" template on top of that grade.

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[Kholi]

Dreaded white walls, hot spots, and extremely hot outside... the DR is lookin' dreamy.

Saying prayers for every last measurement after the FPN/Noise is tuned.

[Stephen Mick]

And hey…a tiny bit of noise isn't a bad thing, either.

[Jaime Valles]

Looks fantastic! Thanks for posting the link, John.

Dreaded white walls, hot spots, and extremely hot outside... the DR is lookin' dreamy.

Saying prayers for every last measurement after the FPN/Noise is tuned.

Agreed.

[John Brawley]

I actually agree with you. I love a camera to have "personality".

jb

[Kholi]

And hey…a tiny bit of noise isn't a bad thing, either.

Tiny bit of noise is fine, indeed. Excessive noise in mids and FPN is a different story altogether, at least to me. I personally take comfort in knowing that the noise levels and the FPN represented in the still is from a beta camera. Should only get better.

[randyman]

Just for grins, here's a completely different, more clinical pass on the same image. Tried to pull detail out of the highlights and shadows, abandoned warmth for balance. Hard to do with a jpg, but just wanted to try. Wound up looking awfully sterile in comparison.

leah-cool.jpg

[ari]

Of course we'll have a much better idea when we can look at a CinemaDNG but I absolutely had to have a go at this!


Aharon Rothschild
possibleimpossible.com

[mintcheerios]

July can't come soon enough.

[pcenginefx]

Amazing! Each frame grab keeps looking better and better....can't wait!

[fahnon]

The dynamic range will be the same if we capture compressed to prores, yes?

[bumkicho]

I read or heard somewhere (it's hard to keep up what or where I read or heard or saw about this camera) DR would suffer a bit in prores, but John would be the person to confirm.

[randyman]

As long as you use the BMC's version of Log, ProRes should come quite close to maintaining the same dynamic range.