Bad grain on Epic Monochrome native ISO

[Nick Morrison]

From the meta-data the base was at 23.98, but the DP shot at 40 FPS with 180˚ shutter, so 1/80 s - any ideas why (at the OP)?
Even still - wide open superspeeds at ISO 2000 would produce much brighter images...
Firmware was at 3.3.14

The 40fps per second is unusual. I wonder if they were stopping down? Or using ND? (perhaps as someone else suggested, they were worried more about OVER exposure).

 

[Vadim Bobkovsky]

(perhaps as someone else suggested, they were worried more about OVER exposure).

Monochrome is a bit more sensitive in highlights too, I mean the rolloff obviously looks nicer than in the regular version. Just sayin'.

 

[PatrickFaith]

To me, it almost looks like you (or the DoP) tried very hard not to clip the highlights, but in doing so let the rest of the image get too underexposed... assuming that none of this stuff was shot wide-open.

When I moved to monochrome I had to retrain my brain to not worry so much on the highlights. With the mx sensor clipping highlights can do wierd color tints, and really don't look very nice. But with the monochrome, I think of the histogram bars as something that it is "ok" to have both bars raised a bit. Recent shot from the film i'm doing where half the highlight bar was up, and since it's capturing a decent performance, i will still probably use the shot.

 

[ali walker]

Those practicals are horrid- you should of used real candels- it would of improved the image no end and white bounce off for fill and possibly a lantern to bring up the backdrop to get some highlights/separation on her hair to the background. If you cant reshoot it, then it look like a problem with shutter speed and the project settings / fps? You'll have a few usable stops anyway- but as an image I quite like it anyhow!