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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 :)

shut up and shoot that Scarlet

Nick Pasquariello said:
Thanks for the info Peter; that was even much more than I was hoping for. I would have been satisfied with "Canon's". :)

I never feel like my sharpness is satisfactory. Maybe I'm overly critical of my own work . . . I mainly use some rather standard lenses on a Scarlet; Tokina 11-16, a 35 and an 85 Rokinon, and a small range of Contax Zeiss. In other words, I always see people getting, in my opinion, sharper images with the exact same camera, lenses, and settings.

Though, even before asking, I've found that I like to sharpen my Red footage a bit, no matter what I'm doing or working on. But too much, and it starts to look "digital", even if I'd like the result to be sharper. Even from what I posted a page or two ago in this thread, I found that Resolve made my footage look "digital" with less sharpening than RCX, but RCX wasn't getting mine as good as I wanted it either. Though, I'll have to re-try it a few stops down on my aperture. I'll probably get better results around f5.6 or f8.
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I had the same problem for the first few months when I started shooting on the Scarlet and it was really frustrating as I was noticing people were using similar settings and lenses. Sometimes people complained about the Scarlet being too sharp. I thought something was wrong w/ my camera!

After a lot of trial and error I've found it's a combination of things. I rarely shoot wide open if I can help it, since I'm shooting mostly on still lenses. Always 1-3 stops from max. aperture. Canon 24-105 isn't the best lens for sharpness unless you're shooting at f/8 or higher (which is what I was shooting, wide open, the majority of my work on). Sticking w/ primes or cine-zooms now. Camera's backfocus also had to be adjusted to allow 11-14mm of my Tokina to get infinity focus, which attributed to soft focus. Correctly expose 'low lit' interior shots instead of shooting near wide open; and, use power windows if you can't control light spill when increasing your light output in a room to correctly expose.

After doing all these things, a few of my recent projects came out tack sharp with no sharpening applied. Some of the footage was too sharp actually, and I finally understood why people were saying sometimes the footage off the sensor is a little too sharp!
 
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Speaking of Scarlet and sharpness, was just playing with these...
























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Love this camera.
 
Thanks Matthew for that. Cant wait to see it :)
 
Eric Santiago said:
Thanks Matthew for that. Cant wait to see it :)
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Thanks Eric, yeah man, it's a sweet little short but there's so much crammed into the 15 minutes, it happens so fast! I can't wait to see a feature written by those guys (Space Tourist Films). This was their first venture into the film industry, but next up is a feature I'm told.
 
Stepped outside and found a flower had fallen on my doorstep. So, of course...
















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I still don't know how to down-rez properly for the net, so the originals look better, but you get the idea.
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that was nice Les thanks!
 
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I've been shooting this 'ad' for Copenhagen for the past 4 years.

https://vimeo.com/91091798

I've learned a lot making this, especially how difficult it is to match colorgrading in videos shot on different glass, seasons, weather conditions etc. etc.
 
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