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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 :)

Some tests - I would say it just works...

Will just post it here, too.

But. It looks like will attend IBC 13th - 17th.
And I might bring a little 4k something to show curious people and some files and stuff to discuss for the curious.

If interested in hitting up, please mail me at

gunleikgroven at gmail dot com or pm me here.

All plans are not set, but I will try to attend as much relevant things as I can.

Cheers

G
 
I understand the hunger for footy as much as the next man.

And I also hope that you guys can respect that images will come...

However.
i managed to dig up a last shot which I think might be of interest and could be shareable.

This again with ND 1.5 + pola on an 18mm superspeed @ 5.6+

There is tons of headroom on both sides of the Dragons exposurerange in this shot (nope, I will not post a RLF of it, just take my word for it)

there are tons of green which could easilly have been messed up by IR (this is bright sun hitting the sea here)

And the skintones could easilly have been underexposed...

But this is Dragon.

the sun was "BRIGHT"

the skin is just working...

no bounce

no diff

The vignetting is "as expected" and just me being silly and wanting to shoot on the 18 anyway.

Compression is 13:1

nJoy!

And be peaceful.

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Wonderful!!
Amazing images, Gunleik. Many thanks.
 
No reflector and her face is on the shadowside (look at where the shadow falls) while the sky has extra headroom. As does the darks. If I wanted I could make the forest in the background "hyoerreal". I am just not into that.

That said, the concrete reflects of course and gives some polite fill.
 
Dropped it in Photoshop and did a slight curve, boom literally smooth as butter out of the box Alexa-like or film-like (whatever you call it) shot. To think that this camera is shooting not 3K-ish image, but IMAX-worthy 6K motion pictures, ready to be delivered in pristine 4K both for theaters and 4KTVs. Holeee guacamole!
 
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The good thing is that it doesn't have the HDR look.
It's beautifull to see that the floor bounce naturally decrease from the foot to her face. No crazy curve to bring all the highlight and low light info in one artificially composed picture!

More than mesured dynamic range the natural distribution of DR is the big ++ for me shown in this picture.

Thanks Gunleik.

Pat
 
Unless you go and look a bit at what happens in the vignette, this shot is by far not the most challenging DR wise I have from the Dragon. I do not hit the top or the bottom.

It is a DR challenging shot in some ways, but that is more as what fidelity is kept in the skintones and shadows, despite keeping the top of the exposure well within range without really trying to push it in any way.

I mean, usually I do not shoot to kill a cam.... ;)

And even though it is good to know that you can do that, too, it is kinda cool to look at what is "effortless".

and on the Dragon, this shot is... effortless. I know a few other cams for which this would have been "a stretch".

Even when you look at the vignette, you see that there is "more" before it hits the hard edge of the lens.

Dragon is simply "more".
 
The tonality range looks nice and smooth on that image to my eye. Really like what's going on with those specular highlights on the water too. Nice.
 
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Gunleik Groven said:
No reflector and her face is on the shadowside (look at where the shadow falls) while the sky has extra headroom. As does the darks. If I wanted I could make the forest in the background "hyoerreal". I am just not into that.

That said, the concrete reflects of course and gives some polite fill.
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... I am going to love .... and love ... and love .... that dragon ... :-)
 
Finishing in 4k from 6k now, is a bit like it was finishing in 1080 from 4k some years ago.

You mostly have to scale your thinking. Especially as I (at least) cannot go RAW online ATM.

But the RAW files play incredibly well on minuscule hardware and are incredibly fun to work with.

Sweet...

Thursday I will hopefully have a chance to watch a bit of 4k screenings from what I have been working on...

Sweet...
 
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