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NAB 2014 - DRAGONcolor and REDgamma 4

Phil Holland said:
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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Thanks Phil .....You always Rocking.............................very good information.Thanks for doing this.


Sunil Prem
 
Brad Allen said:
Very impressive - thanks Phil!
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SUNILPREM said:
Thanks Phil .....You always Rocking.............................very good information.Thanks for doing this.
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Thanks guys. Big thanks for Jarred and Graeme for allowing me to test this out early. I'm crazy about color and this in reality is might be some of the biggest Dragon news thus far from NAB.

Now it's up to the 3rd party guys to get support into their software and fast.
 
Yep, this is awesome. Congrats RED and Greame, you have done a great job here.
And thank you Phil!

/me wants a Dragon asap. ;)
 
Kemalettin Sert said:
what is burst mode?
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Phil Holland said:
Thanks guys. Big thanks for Jarred and Graeme for allowing me to test this out early. I'm crazy about color and this in reality is might be some of the biggest Dragon news thus far from NAB.

Now it's up to the 3rd party guys to get support into their software and fast.
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This really is the news that makes the other news items matter. Everything is built on the quality of the image. Without that, none of the rest will matter. I love seeing these subtle--and not so subtle--color improvements.
 
Kemalettin Sert said:
what is burst mode?
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Ususally:
SHort bursts buffered to the internal camera memory of "even higher framerates".

Say 200fps for 2 secs at 6k FF

(this is just an example. I have no real knowledge of the actual numbers)

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Very nice. Anychance Redgamma 4 will be implemented for Red One MX?
 
Thanks for posting those pics Phil. ...HUGE improvement in those skin tones!

I'm excited now!
 
BURST MODE!!! hell yes!!!
 
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