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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 :)

Strasbourg 9pm - 1am with Dragon, low light ...

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here are some samples from our night shoot with the Dragon - the "bridge" image is interesting, showing, what you can do with a VERY dark set, using all tools (yes this is ADD, but where is the problem - i think you are not able to shoot this with many other cameras in a quite crisp native 6K frame ... saying this, with DEB, it´s even better (what you see is without DEB, all images are without DEB) - i will ask RED to post the workflow of this result - it was really dark here, but it is useable even on a 4K screen)

https://www.flickr.com/photos/123436930@N07/sets/72157646216775673/

update: http://we.tl/Uqcxs3M503

dropbox (download the whole to get better jpgs): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/15zh1xh93m29b65/AAD7qJv4SUZ7Qr3K431ZbjFka

Update: R3D: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rgc8suy9sht63po/AACWs03hmOcEA2F_Wyc5xVkWa


this stuff is graded with Da Vinci and some Photoshop, i will upload some R3D and would be interested, what you get out of the RAW - all tricks of grading are allowed, noone takes a Raw and throw this on a screen (sometimes i think some expect this when i read all the discussions here)

for me, it´s time to thank the RED team for this camera, Jarred Land, Graeme, ... Jim, ... i was a director and DP a lot of time and worked for commercials and television, earned good money, and i was bored someday. i decided to do my own thing, own company, i started at zero, with an old 16mm camera, a dvx 100 and hvx200 - and started 2007 / 2008 with R1 into the adventure of digital cinema, as i could not pay for 35mm with my first clients ... low budget stuff. Genesis, Arri D21, ... no chance. With Red, all changed. I don´t want to give too much honey here ... but RED is a big part of the success of me and my small but fine company. with all the harsh critics here in the last weeks, i want to say this to the RED team, i will support it now, and in future (and there are tons of projects in the pipeline for my company) - maybe some say we are kind of fanboys. why not.

Flickr + dropbox preview oversharpens a bit the jpgs, for best result use wetransfer or download the dropbox stuff
 
thanks, when you take care of exposure and don´t expect blacks are being in daylight you get this results.
if you have time for a night to render, use even ADD and you will be flashed what´s possible in low light, but even without it works. hope DEB will be there when you go in post, it helps.
fast lense, and you can stay on max ISO800 honestly, this whole pushing ISO2000 is bit strange i think. the lense is an important factor, i saw noisy stuff of Epics and asked what stop and they told me f4 with a foto-zoom in the night ... okay ...
 
variations, sometime ISO400 up to 800, bridge up to ISO2000 in parts and then masks to protect the shadows

for the most a light NR Neat and for the bridge ADD was needed, as it is helpless underexposed for this test ;-)

others like the ship down to ISO 250 with some powermasks and i add even bit grain to get a more organic look
 
now it should work
 
Jan,

you keep showing us that dragon is a piece of shit compared to MX and that it's worse in low light. LOL :)

as usual, lovely frames...

battistella
 
yes, unusable. especially on a 4K screen

heh heh
 
some cool frames in there!
 
for what you wanted to buy the 1DX? still or motion ?
 
Horrible web compression compared to the originals, but it was mostly about the colour anyway...







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Thanks Jan.
 
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