Architectural Shooter's Wet Dream

[Christopher Barrett]

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How did you use the strobes with Epic?

The strobes are all Profoto D1s. I just let the camera roll and trigger them via wireless. Then I pull the frame that they fired on. Easy peasy.

And... It's cool, Frederik. I'm into big discussions, especially where image quality is concerned.

 

[Colin Hubick]

The strobes are all Profoto D1s. I just let the camera roll and trigger them via wireless. Then I pull the frame that they fired on. Easy peasy.

And... It's cool, Frederik. I'm into big discussions, especially where image quality is concerned.

Hi Christopher, thanks for the images, just a question about the strobes. what speed are they firing at to not get half exposed frames? I have tried this with our Epic, and all we get are these half exposed frames. Thanks for any insight to this.

cheers
Colin

 

[Karim D. Ghantous]

Also, (and maybe this is 20 years of working with film talking) but I don't really expect an 800 ISO sensor to be as clean as a 50 ISO sensor...

Agreed. But noise doesn't have to be harsh. And I'd like to compare directly the Nikon D700 with the EPIC at 800 ISO. Different beasts completely, of course. I found that even the Nikon D1X at 800 ISO was noticeably noisy but it was pleasant, film-like noise. The only reason I bring up these cameras is that I see the EPIC/Scarlet primarily as a still camera, not a movie camera, and I'd love to be able to use it as such.

Hi Christopher, thanks for the images, just a question about the strobes. what speed are they firing at to not get half exposed frames? I have tried this with our Epic, and all we get are these half exposed frames. Thanks for any insight to this.

Long duration strobes should fix your problem. They do exist but I just don't know what to recommend. Either that or set the EPIC to a longer shutter duration and lower frame rate (unless you've already done that?).

 

[Karim D. Ghantous]

I just took a couple of frames with a D700. I pointed the lens at a gray card and shot the first exposure at 800 ISO and the second at 200 ISO. Both were TIFFs. I cropped a 200px square bitmap from the centre of each frame, then put them side-by-side on my desktop and did a PNG screen capture of that.

This is a quick and dirty test, and I'm not sure if it's going to reveal much, but I'd be curious to see a frame section from an EPIC exposed at 800 ISO.

 

[Peter Mosiman]

Christopher.

You cease to amaze me. Miss working with you man.

PMOS