POLL: Lighting at 3200k

[Andrew Patterson]

Do you guys do this?

Or do you always try to light with 5500k and cooler on RED Sensors?

Trying to get a warm interior "Out of Sight" look and still get non noisy images.

 

[Matt Ryan]

I shoot with tungsten lights all the time and no noise...

 

[Joe Minuni]

I've used tungsten with no issues. RED says it's a daylight native sensor, but all lights I use are tungsten - I haven't had anything to complain about. Greenscreen shoots with tungsten as well, no complaints from me

 

[Andrew Patterson]

That's been my experience, but I thought maybe I was missing something.

What ISO are you guys running?

 

[Andrew Patterson]

Great Shots, Matt.
Very Encouraging -- Thanks for Sharing.

I shoot with tungsten lights all the time and no noise...

 

[Matt Ryan]

Great Shots, Matt.
Very Encouraging -- Thanks for Sharing.

Thank you,
I shot those at 500ISO. I tend to shoot 500 for most interiors/low light, and 800 for daylight.

Here's a tungsten green screen at 500ISO.

 

[Shane Kelly]

I shoot tungsten all the time. No issues at all.

 

[Andrew Patterson]

I like the look of 3200 when it's made to look very warm -- i.e. white balancing for Daylight under Tungsten.

Is this a bad practice?

 

[Steve Sherrick]

I like the look of 3200 when it's made to look very warm -- i.e. white balancing for Daylight under Tungsten.

Is this a bad practice?

There's no such thing as bad practice when you are achieving the look you are going for. I have seen a ton of stuff shot with Tungsten on R!, R! MX, and Epic. Usually no issues unless under lit and starving the blue channel.

 

[SUNILPREM]

I shoot with tungsten lights all the time and no noise...

Fantastic work Matt .........

 

[Matthew Scott]

Matt, looks better than promethius!

 

[Matt Ryan]

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

Now I just need you to color it Matthew! haha

 

[Michael Lindsay]

Lighting at 3200 is absolutely fine unless you underexposed and want to correct to a colour ballanced or a blue look...

That said I have been shown suspect footage (multiple times) for advice where someone has worked with dimed down tungsten (under 2800k), underexposed 2+stops then wanted to correct back to ballanced. Eachtime there was too much noise in the blue channel and post was having problems...

Give it some stop, optically filter, accept a warm look, don't drop bellow 3000k... There are lots of solutions and as always test if worried.

Michael L

 

[Matthew Scott]

Thanks guys, I appreciate it.

Now I just need you to color it Matthew! haha

Hehe I kinda like it the way it is!

 

[Jon Carr]

As long as your raw is healthy, 3200k is just fine. The MX sensor is a big improvement over the M.

 

[Gunleik Groven]

Never had an issue with tungsten even on the M R1...

 

[Matt Ryan]

Never had an issue with tungsten even on the M R1...

Yeah, the key is proper exposure and you will be fine. It's when you try to push the image that you get issues.