EPIC W Low Light Tests - Ambient w/ China Ball Run n Gun

[Tim Daust]

In between renders last week I decided to go out and shoot some low light tests on the Epic W with my friend. Mixed lighting conditions uncontrolled but "staged", using only a China Ball and ambient light(s). LED and Sodium based Street lights, neon signs, marquee lights, and darkness.

Nothing crazy here just simple tests to see what Helium can do for me. For a lot of music videos I typically have minimal crew and we do a lot of guerilla shooting. Here is what I got in 1 hour of messing around.

All tests shot with Rokinon CINE DS lenses. 24mm 50mm and 85mm.

**(UPDATE)**
all 8K WS @ 6:1 REDWideGamutRGB/Log3G10 + Graeme's Wizardry! (Original video posted used DRAGONcolor2/REDgamma4)

All of these still are DRAGONcolor2/REDgamma4 - I will update them with RWG/Log3G10 soon

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[Fergus Cahill]

Thanks for sharing Tim!

 

[Tristan Houghton]

The shots out the front of the cinema or play house are so good!

 

[Martin Stevens]

Awesome imagery!

 

[Tim Daust]

thanks guys

The shots out the front of the cinema or play house are so good!

I like the dynamic range here..

 

[Jagger Christian]

Nice! Thanks for sharing!

 

[Tim Daust]

Now I need to post some footage from this. I was going to wait on premiere to update before posting footage but now that I am 100% done with my renders and this huge project has been delivered I can use my computer power for myself again.

soon...

 

[Brandon Kelly]

Looks great. What's your china ball setup like?

 

[Brian Pascale]

Looks great, thanks for sharing.

 

[Derek Doublin]

Did you use the Lowlight OLPF?

 

[Tim Daust]

Did you use the Lowlight OLPF?

standard OLPF

Looks great. What's your china ball setup like?

18 inch china ball with a $40 LED light from AMAZON rigged on a gobo

Thanks Jagger and Brian!

 

[Jason Bodnar]

Great stuff Tim!

 

[Dan Frenkel]

Thanks for sharing Tim

 

[Chris McKechnie]

Yea, the Helium sensor is an amazing piece of tech!

 

[Jason Han]

Nice Tim! Looks like you get some of those blown out bokeh's as well, have you noticed these really hard colored bokeh that's completely gone? We did some extensive testing with Helium and found that it doesn't handle highlights all too well. I heard that's what they made Log3G for but I don't like what it does to the image, it seems like you are losing a lot of highlight details. I wonder if the new color space will fix that too