Struggling with noise!

[Kurt Naeslund]

Hello,

Our Epic Dragon seems to always have issues with noise, even though filming in just dimmed environments and not really dark ones.
We have done the necessary calibrations as well, but still the footage is suffering often and quite a lot.

Does anyone else have experience and solutions for this?

Thanks,

 

[Bérenger Brillante]

I bet you have the Skin Tone Highlights OLPF set at more than 1000iso.
Just order the Low Light Optimized OLPF or the standard.

 

[Kurt Naeslund]

That might be it ofcourse. I am just a newbie really, so I haven't tried to change the OLPF yet...

 

[Michael Tiemann]

If you post an R3D, chances are many people can tell you how many stops it is under-exposed ;-)

 

[M Most]

If you're doing anything less than a Full debayer, that would also contribute to this type of problem.

Mike Most
On Location Services Director
Technicolor
Los Angeles, CA.

 

[Nick Morrison]

As others have said, sounds like you have the Skintone OLPF, which needs to be rated 320. Try the Lowlight (800 iso) or Standard (640).

We shot this @ 800 ISO on Lowlight ISO, and had ZERO noise:

https://vimeo.com/174416755

 

[Martin Stevens]

I use the Skin-tone OLPF and have no issues at ISO 2000 on my Weapon, but then I think an image with zero noise
looks digital and plastic, and un-film like.

 

[Kurt Naeslund]

Yeah, I am no fan of totally noiseless images, but this is noise even when daylight is pretty strong in frame. I will take a look at the OLPF and also post something for you. Thanks for the feedback anyways