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Yet another in our intolerable series “No One Asked But We Answer It Anyway!” 😝 Everyone is aware that 12-bit PQ ST2084 was devised using the Barten ramp to ensure that contouring artefacts in the BT.2020 standard were below the visible threshold. But did you know that PQ as the EOTF is only applicable to... Continue Reading →
The following excerpt is from S6 E5 of The T Stop Inn with guest Michael Cioni and host Ben Allan, ACS on 21 March 2025. We highly recommend listening to the entire show. Michael Cioni: I used to own a post house called Light Iron, and we did everything from The Social Network, we worked... Continue Reading →
A lot of people are seeing technically higher quality - they're seeing HDR, they're seeing 4K - higher quality on a purely technical level on the device that's in their pocket than what they're seeing at their local cinema. - Ben Allan, ACS The following excerpt is from S6 E5 of The T Stop Inn... Continue Reading →
https://youtube.com/shorts/VhSA1i4t-B4?feature=share All four of our Sigma DC DN ‘Contemporary’ APS-C lenses for RF Mount - the 16mm f/1.4, 23mm f/1.4, 30mm f/1.4 and 56mm f/1.4 - worked fine on our RED KOMODO until we updated to their latest firmware version 1.8.3. The aperture indicator on the camera changes continuously, the camera’s physical buttons and on... Continue Reading →
“Ever since liftgammagain got hijacked by that lunatic, psychopath guy who sells calibration software, most smart people that know anything about color science or color have been out of it, nobody really wants to even write anything, because there's always somebody trying to outsmart you and put links to their product, using it as a... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/Zsqz_s0Br9A?si=y-KjocDsAaqBGBGb Look Development in Documentary Filmmaking, Camerimage. Panelists: James Kersley-Cregeen – Production Technologist, Netflix Ross Baker – Head of Colour, Molinare Jack Jones – Senior Colourist & Co-owner, Roundtable Post Daniele Siragusano – Image Engineer, FilmLight On the hazards of not monitoring in HDR & ACES from the outset James Kersley-Cregeen: “I have one anecdote... Continue Reading →
Annie Chang, VP/Creative Technologies, Universal Pictures, speaking at a SMPTE Hollywood panel discussion in 2023, talked about ‘the shock of HDR’. “I think one of the issues is [that] we still have monitoring issues throughout the live action process, so it's like maybe they have an HDR monitor on set so they can actually see... Continue Reading →
"It’s really all about the aesthetics, so when I grade my movies for HDR, I make sure that I keep the same feel[ing] that the cinematographer and the director had intended for the movie... it could look the same [as the SDR grade] or maybe just one scene could look different... again you can take... Continue Reading →
The Daejeon Chronicles 