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NAB 2014 - DRAGONcolor and REDgamma 4

DRAGONcolor/REDgamma4 have been the missing link in regards to much of the testing and camera image quality comparisons that have happened since Dragon's release.

Now with DC/RG4, the New OLPF, and New Calibration we can really see what Dragon "is". This is real big news.
 
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Patrick Grossien said:
... sanjin??? :)
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DRAGONcolor and REDgamma 4

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DRAGONcolor and REDgamma 4

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DRAGON Monochrome and REDgamma 4
 
Wait. I almost missed this bit:

• 4 User Calibration Maps available (Dragon only)
• Calibration map programming time optimized (Dragon only)

That means you can prep a camera prior to shooting for a variety of shutter speeds and boom you're good to go.

This should make people incredibly happy. Black Shading for one off high speed shots is no longer necessary, you can just pull up your CalMap and load it up.

I have a feeling this will be silly useful with whatever this sneaky burst mode is all about :)
 
Thank you!!!

My favorits
Redgamma 4
burst mode
Public REDLINK Control Protocol support
 
You haven't seen Dragon 'til you've seen Dragoncolor. Graeme's done a really impressive job here. There will clearly be a thousand realworld example images once we're all able to play with the new RCX build incorporating Dragoncolor. Skintone particularly benefits, but improvement is across the board and reveals what Dragon is capable of. (Its been a frustrating time recently to watch a long thread develop about skintone!)

For now, a little science from me from which I hope you'll see the value in. Dragoncolor gives tremendous colour purity which is a step ahead of Dragon material processed with RC3. Trying to match with primary and secondary grading what Graeme has given us here is a tall order, but this is the new normal. The new gamma also hits just right for black level and a crisper cleaner white retaining a great rolloff.

Purity of colour reads into effective saturation, but also into post flexibility as well as basic IQ.

This is a standard tungsten illuminated spectrum, projected straight onto the sensor. Same file developed RC3 and DC/DG (or are we calling it RG4?)

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I know I tend to think like a scientist as well as a creative, but if you don't see what I see in this I don't know what to say ;)
 
John Marchant said:
This is a standard tungsten illuminated spectrum, projected straight onto the sensor. Same file developed RC3 and DC/DG (or are we calling it RG4?)
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It's RG4 now.. since REDGAMMA4 benefits non-Dragon footage as well.
 
I have a few images to share here. I was fortunate to get an early look at what exactly DRAGONcolor and REDgamma4 can do. This is very important stuff and I have a few example images. Anything you see here listed as DRAGONgamma is actually REDgamma4.

Here we go:

Color Chart in Broad Daylight (no ND)


Things to notice is the overall subtle vibrancy and clarity of chroma and tones.


Skin Tones - Shot 1


Skin tones, likely the most talked about color response talked about, has more pop. Richer, fuller, subtle tones revealed.


Skin Tones - Shot 2


Another example on a male subject under daylight fluorescents.


Super Saturation - Shot 1



Early on we noticed that Dragon had access to a lot of color information. So much it was actually carrying over into highlights on tricky sources, like the orange sign in the background next to the man in frame. Graeme worked hard and the highlight chroma roll-off is much more wrangled under saturated sources. Huge accomplishment in reality.


Super Saturation - Shot 2



Another test of tricky color sources. Check out how the tail lights and the El Capitan sign in the upper left corner are now. This is good. Also the guitar neon sign in the background shows perhaps the biggest improvement.


Tricky Reds



Before we had tuned color science on Dragon reds in particular seemed to be jumping up and being hot. In the files you could see the data there, with the new color science with DRAGONcolor now it looks like you want it to.


Harsh Daylight Source


This is the visible difference on my face compared to REDcolor3/REDgamma3. Again, there's more pop and nuance to skin tones. They aren't as flat as before and have much of a think feeling.


As John mentioned above DRAGONcolor/REDgamma4 places the black levels at the appropriate density levels. Now we have a far thicker "digital negative" in the REDCODE RAW. This effects everything in reality. From the general look to the proper ISO performance under this New OLPF and New Calibration.

And the thing I'm stressing with these examples is this is REDgamma4's output. Using DRAGONcolor and REDlogFilm is equally as powerful when going for more advanced grading. Dragon's got the thickness. That's the best way I can describe it.
 
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