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What OLPF to use?!

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Jasper Van Gheluwe

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Hey REDUSERS,

A few weeks ago I entered the RED-Family, and since that moment I keep on learning while doing research.
One thing that I can't put my finger one:
When I ordered my Scarlet-W, my mail-contact advised me to buy the low-light OLPF, because I work mostly in the Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia and concert-halls.
But to be fair, I'm still in doubt if that is the best thing to do. Of course it's better to buy all three, but what if I had to choose one, which one is the best for general use in my case? Is it indeed the low-light OLPF or the standard?

Thanks in advance!

Friendly regards,

Jasper
 
If most of the work you do involves interior concert halls and live music, the LLO may be a very good idea for you. I normally use the standard olpf now, but JUST last night we had to switch our cameras to the LL beause we were filming in a concert hall. We were able to push the ISO over 2000. one of 3 cameras we used had the Standard which was fine... but the LL performed better for our particular shoot.

Long story short I would normally recommend the standard for an all around solution.
 
Matthew Quinn said:
If most of the work you do involves interior concert halls and live music, the LLO may be a very good idea for you. I normally use the standard olpf now, but JUST last night we had to switch our cameras to the LL beause we were filming in a concert hall. We were able to push the ISO over 2000. one of 3 cameras we used had the Standard which was fine... but the LL performed better for our particular shoot.

Long story short I would normally recommend the standard for an all around solution.
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+1 on both counts. If you need to pull a rabbit out of a very dark hat, LLO all day. If you only need general magic, STD. If it's all about the beautiful assistant in the spotlight, STH.
 
To me, LLO is a tool (a cruch if you will) for combating noise in low light situations that you have no control over.

STH is a tool for getting the best possible image out of your camera. It lets plenty of light in for the 90% of situations you may find yourself in.

To my eye, the Standard OLPF on the Weapon is much closer to LLO than STH on my old Epic.
 
Thanks for all the replies!
After reading and thinking, I should go for the LLO for concerts and the standard for most of the rest.
I could've expected this, but in a way I hoped that you guys would say the LLO also gives almost as good the quality as the standard, apparently there's no one-trick pony.

What about the skin-tone olpf?
 
There was some discussion about OLPFs on another thread where some people mentioned that they'd been using the LLO OLPF in daylight with good success. From what I gathered, the difference wasn't image quality, it was exposure. With the LLO OLPF, they had to be a bit more careful about protecting highlights. With the STH OLPF, you get beautiful highlight rolloff, but it's geared toward lower ISOs, so might not work so well in low light.

But then again, a 2nd OLPF only cost $295, and the LLO OLPF will cover most of your needs, so you might as well just get started shooting with the LLO and add another to your kit based on where you find the LLO not working out for you. IMO given their low cost, there's not much reason to worry. I'm getting mine with an STH OLPF, but will most likely end up adding one of each of the LLO and Standard OLPFs to my kit at some point over the summer.
 
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