How to get the best blacks from your OLED EVF

[steve green]

Hi guys,
I just finished a shoot with my new OLED and although the colors are bright and clear, the brightness cannot be controlled at all. The buttons on the eyepiece or the LCD/EVF adjustments in the menu do nothing. This makes lighting and viewing (an over lit looking picture) very disconcerting. I'm constantly having to double check my histogram exposures on a monitor which is a pain when working quickly. I'm on 3.0.6, I had second camera which was on 3.0.7 from a rental house, the OLED had no brightness adjustment when plugged into it either. I should add that I have to keep the "focus peaking" on all the time otherwise the eyepiece (and the touchscreen) actually looks a little soft. Any help would be appreciated.

[Ivan Cortazar]

I know it is meta data, but wonder if it will affect the way we expose the shadows since we might see the shadows darker than what they really are, but I guess the good thing is that when we switch to raw to check for exposure then the Flut/shadow will deactivated, right? And then of course we will see milky shadows which is not ideal for judging exposure.

I really hope that even though not doing this FLUT/Shadow adjustment is much better than the old Bomv EVF. I couldnt stand the milky image. That's the only reason I upgraded to the OLED.

Thanks for sharing MArk.

[Mike 'Fireman' Ross]

Hi guys,
I just finished a shoot with my new OLED and although the colors are bright and clear, the brightness cannot be controlled at all. The buttons on the eyepiece or the LCD/EVF adjustments in the menu do nothing. This makes lighting and viewing (an over lit looking picture) very disconcerting. I'm constantly having to double check my histogram exposures on a monitor which is a pain when working quickly. I'm on 3.0.6, I had second camera which was on 3.0.7 from a rental house, the OLED had no brightness adjustment when plugged into it either. I should add that I have to keep the "focus peaking" on all the time otherwise the eyepiece (and the touchscreen) actually looks a little soft. Any help would be appreciated.

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread....ra-Build-3-2-8

Latest beta includes support for OLED brightness control.

Mike

[steve green]

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread....ra-Build-3-2-8

Latest beta includes support for OLED brightness control.

Mike

Thanks, Mike. Now that the shoot is over I'll give a try today.

[Trevor Meeks]

http://reduser.net/forum/showthread....ra-Build-3-2-8

Latest beta includes support for OLED brightness control.

Mike

Does the OLED still have the terrible magenta/green shift with brightness adjustment like the original BOMB? Sure hope not...

[Bob Gundu]

Not really. But it is a bit warm.

Does the OLED still have the terrible magenta/green shift with brightness adjustment like the original BOMB? Sure hope not...

[steve green]

The new build 3.2.16 does fix the brightness issues, but yes it is certainly on the warm side.

[Trevor Meeks]

Not really. But it is a bit warm.

Yeah it's way warmer than the original EVF. Not very happy about that but I can deal I guess... Hell, it's only a $5,000 EVF.

[Paul Ellington]

Major improvements in not only quality, colors, blacks (it's not a color), and power consumption and I am wondering why folks are so nitpicky. Everybody will have a different eye and think this or that. Both of my BOMB OLED's are better than my old BOMB EVF.

In any event, I love these, I would own three if I could but that will have to wait.

Not meant to rile anyone up just can't understand the frustration. If you don't like the eye-piece there are other options but file a ticket for support.

- PE