Gemini + Canon CN-E Lenses

[Andrew Reese]

I recently purchased my first Red (Gemini) about 6-months ago and have been shooting an awful lot with my Canon CN-E Lenses and I wanted to provide a couple examples of this combination for reference for anyone interested in the looks that can be achieved with this combo. So far I am blown away with the IQ of my Gemini and CN-E lenses. Few recent projects/tests with this combo below...

 

[Shawn P]

These shots look amazing. Did you use a specific LUT to color these?

 

[Gun Ho Jang]

I have same combo. Looks great

 

[Andrew Reese]

Sorry for not getting back sooner with answers to your questions. I typically use the standard RED transform LUTS (usually Medium Contrast / Soft Size or Very Soft Size Highlight Rolloff) depending on the shot and how much contrast I want. I typically reduce contrast and tend to pull out milkier shadows even a bit even further with Phil Hollands Philm Color Cine Tone LUT. I also play around with Hrvoje Simic "Primers" LUTs for Gemini a bit as well. I have some orange and teal LUTs I have created myself through time but other than that all additional color manipulation, grading, color & hue/saturation curves, etc its all done manually and specifically for each project in FCPX which surprisingly has produced pretty decent results in comparison to Adobe/Davinci platforms with a much faster editing workflow.

Here is another example I recently finished...

 

[Nathan Ryan]

Hey, sorry to resurrect an old thread. I'm just doing some lens tests here and I'm noticing a bug - do you have situations where the lenses stop reporting metadata to the camera? So far I've only identified swapping on the 135mm is causing it, but I'm going to keep doing changes and see if it's random or if certain focal lengths are more buggy than others. Seems like the only way to solve it once it's triggered is to restart the camera. Obviously not wanting to be in a situation where I have to restart the camera every time the lens gets swapped.

Edit - 85mm is freezing data on the screen on removal. Metadata for other clips with different lenses read last data from the 85. :/

Seems not normal.