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  • Hey all, just changed over the backend after 15 years I figured time to give it a bit of an update, its probably gonna be a bit weird for most of you and i am sure there is a few bugs to work out but it should kinda work the same as before... hopefully :)

Dragon's Colour Science

Remember, you can "beef up" REDCODE's saturation a hell of lot if you want more of a rich, vibrant, or fresh feeling.

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This is actually one of the things I was impressed by early on with REDCODE.

Dragon's new found "meat" is only going to make this more fun.
 
Nice post Phil.

:)
 
Adam Eden said:
Sorry guys but the best sensor on the market right now for digital stills is the phase one iq series. There is no equal. I have a p45+ for my hassleblad and the epic doesn't come close for stills.

The capture one pro software is the digital standard for stills and every time I use my digital back on my 500 series hassy with my 1980's German Zeiss glass I am amazed. I usually shoot with mk3 super speeds on my epic but I had a lens tech make a hassleblad to pl adapter and my 80's hassy glass matches perfectly with them especially my 120 mm hassleblad macro
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in motion you would see significant marching-ants and jittering moire aliasing issues with that camera that one does not notice in stills - motion is a tougher thing to nail.
 
I like Phil's better too which means mine CAN (the potential is there at least, skill not withstanding) be just as good... and then even better with Dragon.
 
yea those are some nice shots Phil!
 
Cheers to that. I'm an oddity around here as I split my time between shooting and more "butt in chair" related work, such as color.

Redcine-X Pro is a fairly tremendous tool once you dig into it. And it's free for all to use on their .R3Ds. Pretty rad.

These days I seem to bashing out a first light or even finish from RCX. Just depends on what I'm up to and sometimes the look I'm after.

REDCODE is the thing though really. Combined with native 3rd party support in all of the major post color tools = wonderful.

Getting familiar with these tools is powerful if your interest lands in color. Compared to color tools I used back when my primary gig was as a Digital Colorist I feel like I've spoiled by all of these programs. Love how far this in particular has come.
 
Andy Roberts said:
What lenses were you using for the leaves and dew?
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I'm out at dinner at the moment, but if my memory serves me those were shot with Canon L primes and the dew was the 100mm Macro non L.
 
Phil Holland said:
Remember, you can "beef up" REDCODE's saturation a hell of lot if you want more of a rich, vibrant, or fresh feeling.

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This is actually one of the things I was impressed by early on with REDCODE.

Dragon's new found "meat" is only going to make this more fun.
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Thousand percent agree...
 
Phil Holland said:
Getting familiar with these tools is powerful if your interest lands in color. Compared to color tools I used back when my primary gig was as a Digital Colorist I feel like I've spoiled by all of these programs. Love how far this in particular has come.
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I didn't really get into grading until Resolve came out with a free lite version, and even *I* feel blessed by all the available options out there. I don't know if I can even accurately imagine what things used to be like.

There's a really special feeling to having someone on set, looking over your shoulder, that knows nothing about the world that we work in, and showing them "And then I can do THIS to the image here" and toss some sliders around in RedCine-X. It takes 30 seconds of my time, and can nail a look of "Wait you can do WHAT and HOW QUICKLY?!" to anyone's face. I've gotten a lot of people to sort of "get" it by doing that. Or at least get why I'm dedicated to it.
 
Expecting realistic Caucasian skin tone colours at available light with Dragon!!!!

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Portrait of Maria: Shot on Sigma DP1 Merrill 19mm f/2.8, ISO 100, 1/25, WB Portrait.

See bigger image at http://500px.com/photo/42215914
 
When I saw it Mark Toya's Dragon test footage it looks to me like a very early bird colour science example, the same as we already went through that route with M and MX before ...

With a great hope that everything will get smooth and amazing with Dragon colours very soon in a near future...
 
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