Underexposed Dark Images coming out of my Red One MX. Any Ideas for this red newbee?

[sam haboush]

Not too sure what I am doing wrong here. but the images are very underexposed dark and blurry. I got a m42 adapter and I am thinking that may be the problem. I have a helios 44 m42 lens and it just looks like low resolution and that was at golden hour. I tried to shoot in my house with tungsten lighting. That was not working at all. The firmware is 32.02

I am guessing and hoping I'm doing something wrong any ideas? Thanks All.

-Sam Haboush

 

[Nick Morrison]

Not too sure what I am doing wrong here. but the images are very underexposed dark and blurry. I got a m42 adapter and I am thinking that may be the problem. I have a helios 44 m42 lens and it just looks like low resolution and that was at golden hour. I tried to shoot in my house with tungsten lighting. That was not working at all. The firmware is 32.02

I am guessing and hoping I'm doing something wrong any ideas? Thanks All.

-Sam Haboush

Post an .R3D

 

[Marcus Guider]

A .R3D is probably the fastest way to figure out what's going on.

In the meantime...

Be sure to check your Historgram and Goal Post when exposing your image. If your using a RED monitor, make sure the brightness level is set correctly. Usually three clicks down from the highest brightness level should do the trick. Make sure your Exposure and FLUT settings aren't causing your image to look underexposed.

Hope this helps!

 

[sam haboush]

I tried to take a R3D when I figured out what that meant but it would not let me attach the picture via R3D so I just took a picture with my phone. Forgive the image quality. Hope it gives some clarity, excuse the pun.

-Sam Haboush

 

[Bob Gundu]

View attachment 86503 I tried to take a R3D when I figured out what that meant but it would not let me attach the picture via R3D so I just took a picture with my phone. Forgive the image quality. Hope it gives some clarity, excuse the pun.

-Sam Haboush

You really need to host the file somewhere and link here. It's a small file but that's the only way we can investigate it.

 

[ericyoung]

Needs to be a shot of something usefully recognisable & contrasty - eg an external shot of your street with sky in shot. You can make a single frame r3D snapshot in Redcine.

 

[Brad Allen]

As others have mentioned an R3D snapshot will be helpful. But just at a quick glance, I can see from your photo of your screen that your clip is 2K which will generally yield pretty soft and potentially noisy results.

You mentioned that you're new to shooting on RED so it's probably worth mentioning that when shooting at lower resolutions you're only using a small portion of the sensor. It just crops the sensor to the lower resolution that you're shooting. RED doesn't do any downscaling in camera when writing to R3D's. This means that the noise/grain structure is going to be larger and more present on lower resolution footage. If you need to shoot at 2K for some reason (say if you need to use higher framerates), then you really need to make sure you're exposing your shots well or you'll be punished heavily on the post end. IMO I find a 2K crop to be almost too soft for anything these days. Shooting at 3K can still make for a nice 1080 picture, but 2K is almost always too soft to be intercut with higher res footage. Of course, you're mileage may vary and the type of content you're shooting probably has a large bearing on that.

 

[sam haboush]

Hey guys and gals. .. I think the issue is resolved it was my fault. Apparently I had put my m42 adapter convex rather than concave. Then I had false colors on so that was why it was showing up black and white. Gorgeous image now. Thanks so much for your help everyone