What monitoring LUTS do you like to use?

[Mike Kozlenko]

I've been using a couple different Kodak film emulation LUTS from VisionColor over the past few months for on-set monitoring but I'm experimenting with different color profiles and LUTS. Curious what some of you guys like to use regularly.

 

[Chris Kennedy]

My two go to LUTs on set I use are the Omeneo Primers or Truecolor Red to Alexa LUTs

 

[Mike Kozlenko]

Hmm Ive never heard of Omeneo, I gotta check those out. I've heard the truecolor one's mentioned before... curious how those actually perform & how close they get to alexa in a variety of scenarios on day & night exteriors & interiors...

 

[Adrian Jebef]

Omeneo Primers are excellent for onset use. They are one of the few transforms that are designed to give you the full picture of what your camera is capturing. Dynamic range and color balance are primary concerns with Primers which is exactly what an onset viewing LUT should be doing. Creative style LUTs like film emulations are cool but if you are concerned with image fidelity during acquisition the Primers are hard to beat.

 

[Andrew Reese]

Curious to hear more opinions. Just picked up a Gemini and looking for a good first set of acquisition /monitoring LUT's and a few creative style LUT's to buy.

 

[Marc Wielage]

Hrvoe's "Primers" LUTs are pretty good and quite affordable:

http://omeneo.com/primers/

Phil Holland's PHFX PhilmColor LUTs have a lot of good thought behind them:

http://phfx.com/tools/philmColor/

 

[Phil Holland]

Phil Holland's PHFX PhilmColor LUTs have a lot of good thought behind them:

http://phfx.com/tools/philmColor/

Cheers for that Marc.

For those who are just looking for a dash of color without a LUT imposing too much of a curve or other effects, use the ghostStocks to enhance skin or remove a green color cast induced by lighting or ambiance or gremlins.

Though all my IPP2 LUTs are designed to play nice within the current pipeline and color RED ecosystem of Output Tone Map and Highlight Roll-Off combinations, those are indeed the most "color science-y" sort of thing.

You can use the other LUTs in there too (baseStocks, achromics, toneAdjusts, printModels) but they will have a stronger effect, which is either more of a reason to use them or not depending on your goals for the shoot.