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https://youtube.com/shorts/VhSA1i4t-B4?si=HQXH85XYS9ayhGM8 RED KOMODO bug prior to the fix Back in March, after installing firmware version 1.8.3 on the Komodo with any of the recently released Sigma RF DC DN lenses mounted, the physical buttons and the controls on the LCD would become unresponsive, the aperture indicator on the LCD would begin spinning like a casino... Continue Reading →
Kevin Miller, President of ISFTV: Display & Video Source Product Development Consultant and ISF Calibrator and Level III Instructor for the Imaging Science Foundation, doubted me when I said that my Sony A95L QD-OLED TV had atrocious artifacts when playing Dolby Vision content, writing; “I have calibrated at least 20 Sony A95Ls and not seen... Continue Reading →
Leon Barnard, a certified Blackmagic Design trainer and host of Team 2 Films, a YouTube channel with over 76K subscribers, continues his track record of passing along bad advice and misinformation. Last year, he claimed that ARRI Log wasn’t suitable as a timeline color space and implied that commercial program material is mastered in BT.2020.... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/LIssWVQbiX0?si=VvWdQRZNRNX9LO5r Analysis of "HDR" Netflix Shows At a two-day Mini LED TV workshop hosted by TCL in Warsaw, the manufacturer put together a demonstration illustrating how Netflix shows aren’t taking advantage of the capabilities of HDR. Vincent Teoh reports: “This is a very cool demonstration by TCL about how some Netflix shows are graded so... Continue Reading →
At NAB 2025, Larry Jordan spoke with Bram Desmet, CEO, Flanders Scientific, about color gamuts, brighter displays, monitoring HDR on set, future display technologies, color volume & more. In this excerpt, Bram explains why we don’t want Rec. 2020 as native device primaries. Larry Jordan: The big challenge we've got with HDR is, we've got... Continue Reading →
“I've got no great love lost for film grain and I think I can say I think I've managed to go all of 2022 without using film grain once. It's something you know, if the client says, 'Hey, we're doing film grain, give me your best version of it', then my answer is of course... Continue Reading →
"Zipper durability has indeed been a challenge across certain product generations. And while we've made improvements over the years, upgrading materials, tweaking stress points and refining construction, we clearly still have work to do." - Peak Design "Every single one of my Peak Design bags that I've used daily has experienced the same failure. After... Continue Reading →
If proper color management, working scene-referred or HDR are important to you, avoid the Dehancer plugin. For starters, it is limited to the Rec.709 color space. “Since Dehancer asked me to make an honest review, I will talk about them [the bad things]. The first one, which would instantly be a deal breaker for many... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/6vCJkT6filc?si=4eweFqSFDlxbfAEk REC 2020 OR P3-D65 - P3 is more accurate but has more posterization. - Rec. 2020 has smoother 10-bit gradation. YEAR/MODEL - The software appears to have changed since David Abrams published his video tutorial a little over a month ago, e.g., selecting Year/Model on the welcome page is no longer possible. PATTERN INSERTION... Continue Reading →
Frank Glencairn fancies himself a senior colorist, so it's baffling why he would recommend a YouTube tutorial filled with blunders that any experienced colorist ought to be able to spot at a glance. EXPOSURE (1) The YouTuber recommends zebras and waveforms for exposure, but bewilderingly overlooks false color, one of the most useful exposure tools... Continue Reading →
Much streamed HDR content is virtually indistinguishable from SDR. Nate McFarlin, Staff Content Engineer, Dolby Laboratories, says that film schools are partly to blame for failing to teach HDR acquisition and post-production. Joey D’Anna: Are people adopting HDR more now than they have before? Or is it still kind of that niche, nerdy thing for... 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 →
A calibrator sharing his experience matching a DIT’s LG client monitor with his Flanders XMP310 writes, “One of the trickiest parts? The ABL (automatic brightness limiting) on these two monitors kicks in at very different points, forcing us to rethink how to treat the LG TV.” He observed that the FSI XMP310 began to limit... Continue Reading →
“Israel IS the ‘World’s Cleaner.’” - Yossy Mendelovich In an article entitled "YMCinema Stands With Israel and Honoring the Fallen of October 7th", YMCinema founder Yossy Mendelovich advocates genocide and calls Israel “the superhero of the free world.” Meanwhile, CineD's spineless co-founder Nino Leitner, unable to comprehend why anyone would feel compelled to criticize or... Continue Reading →
Returning Greatness to Film Grain: Introducing AV1-Compatible Film Grain Modeling for ExistingHEVC-Based Video Codecs. By Dan Grois, Alex Giladi, Thomas Guionnet, Thomas Burnichon,Nikolay Tverdokhleb, and Mickael Raulet Do the conclusions of this study, which presents an implementation of the existing AV1 film grain synthesis applied to HEVC-based video codecs, justify such a bombastic title? For... Continue Reading →
"And now if we think further about negative emulation, all kinds of other interesting questions come into play that kind of go along the lines of what we were just talking about, like what are the great things and also the limitations of a film negative. Here’s one that is not popular and people don't... Continue Reading →
Adobe makes users jump through a crazy number of hoops just to cancel a stupid subscription. We had to hit ‘cancel’, ‘no thanks’ or ‘continue’ no fewer than six times in order to cancel ours. The FTC’s proposed ‘click to cancel’ rule takes aim at the unscrupulous practices of Adobe and others. The proposed rule... Continue Reading →
The Daejeon Chronicles 