The other day, Maxine Gervais sat down with Cullen Kelly to discuss her work. My client sees the SDR version first “I’m embracing Dolby, definitely, but in a reverse engineering way; and I think by doing so, it has made my clients embrace HDR way more. And I can give you a hint to my... Continue Reading →
We Overlooked A Crucial Component Of Grading HLG HDR!
While goofing around with specular highlights in HLG, we thought we'd see just how well Phil Holland's philmColor LUTs held up, and as it happens, they're pretty terrific! But it dawned on us that HLG has a boatload less saturation than PQ; so for sure, you'll want to add some in post. But you don't... Continue Reading →
First RED KOMODO 6K HLG HDR Footage & Diffuse White/Specular Highlight Comparison!
“The PQ system was developed by Dolby, a company whose main focus is on the cinema while the HLG system was developed jointly by BBC and NHK, two organizations whose main focus is on television… Television is probably better served by the HLG system that was designed from the ground up by television engineers for... Continue Reading →
Anything Above 100 Nits Is HDR
“The more accurate presentation of specular highlights is one of the key distinctions of HDR.” ITU-R BT.2390-8 Yoeri Geutskens, in a dreadfully misguided article entitled We Need to Talk About HDR, published a few years ago over at FlatpanelsHD in response to Vincent Teoh's scathing critique of The Mandalorian, whose highlights peak at 200 nits,... Continue Reading →
These numbers may surprise you
Many decried SMPTE's revision calling for a 5-nit surround as being too stringent, while Charles Poynton maintained the new standard was too lax. "SMPTE ST 2080-3 calls for a surround luminance of 5 nt (that is, 5% of the 100 nit reference white luminance of ST 2080-1). ST 2080-3's Annex A provides a highly questionable... Continue Reading →
Short Takes: Mark Toia Edits in HDR for SDR Deliverables
“Director and DOP Mark Toia flew to Africa to shoot on the RED cameras a stunning set of visuals that Apple showed during the event. The raw footage is for a documentary Apple wanted to use as a test case for the new FCP pipeline. Toia is a highly successful filmmaker who does vast big... Continue Reading →
Kodak hired more psychologists than chemists
“For a long time, many people have thought, 'Well, film has this S-curve kind of thing, it must be some sort of limitation of the photochemical process'. It isn’t. It was designed into the photochemical process. Eastman Kodak for years actually hired more psychologists than chemists for a period of time. They would go around... Continue Reading →
First model shoot with the Great Joy 85mm T2.9
Not great art, but here are a couple clips from our very first model shoot with the Great Joy 85mm T2.9 1.8X anamorphic lens. What we like: the lens is solidly built, fit and finish are excellent, the aperture and focus rings are smooth with just the right amount of resistance, it's got markings in... Continue Reading →
Short Takes: Remote Review From A Bathtub
From an interview with Anastas Michos, ASC, GSC, about his work on “The Autopsy”, from Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities Phedon Papamichael, ASC, GSC: I have a question. Just real quick about the DI, because you keep mentioning it. I was at the ASC clubhouse, and we were talking about agents and DI time and all... Continue Reading →
Cullen Kelly Offering 50% Off Voyager LUT Pack
Cullen Kelly is offering his Voyager LUT pack at a 50% discount. All proceeds will go to help the striking writers and actors. "As you may know, the Writer's and Actor's guilds here in the U.S. are on strike. I won't take the time to go into the full details of it; there are news... Continue Reading →
Don’t Buy The Calibrite Display Pro HL (Updated)
We bought the Calibrite Display Pro HL, intending to use it to calibrate our LG 32EP950, MacBook Pro (late 2021) and LG 55CX HDR displays, only to learn later from Art Suwansang, an X-Rite Coloratti & Calibrite Ambassador, that the probe does not have HDR functionality. He writes: 3 Bullets points / Row down next... Continue Reading →
“I was Given 4 Hours to Test Sony A95L. Here are 12 Things I Found”
HDTVTest got their mitts on Sony's soon to be released flagship QD OLED TV, capable of 1,350 nits on a 10% window and 240 nits full screen. Because Vincent was unable to connect to the same Internet network at Sony UK's office with his own laptop, he wasn't able to calibrate the A95L using the... Continue Reading →
HDR: Disruption or Natural Progression?
“I think cinematographers have always advocated for a better experience for the audience, whether it’s fast film stocks with tighter grain, better projection technology, or higher quality digital-capture and display technologies. HDR is just another step in that direction.” Erik Messerschmidt At NAB 2023, Carolyn Giardina, tech editor of the Hollywood Reporter, sat down with... Continue Reading →
Gamut Rings Plugin To Be Made Available for DaVinci Resolve
Dr. Masaoka is developing plug-ins, the first for DaVinci Resolve, to allow live gamut ring display. 🔥 source
Gareth Edwards Talks Shooting The Creator With FX3
“There’s always been this promise with technology with Moore’s Law. The difference between shooting on film making it a very expensive film, and what you might call a consumer, a prosumer, like the stuff you can buy in stores, is getting narrower and narrower. That gap is getting indistinguishable to some extent. We shot the... Continue Reading →
LG update fixes auto-dimming on 2022 OLED TVs (C2, G2)
“After fixing the issue with auto-dimming in dark scenes on its 2023 models earlier this year, LG is now also rolling out a firmware fix for its 2022 OLED models, C2 and G2.” source
The Daejeon Chronicles 