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An HDR Tutorial That Doesn’t Suck
The free tutorials over at Jonas Westling’s LearnHDRvideo are a great resource for anyone just starting out.
ETTR Is Not Overexposure
At the very end of his article on why S-Log3 no longer needs to be exposed to the right with Sony’s current generation of sensors, Alister Chapman makes a great point: “And one last thing: I don’t like the use of the term “over exposing” to describe shooting a bit brighter to help eliminate noise.... Continue Reading →
Colorist Charles Fréville On Ganglands (Season 2)
We really enjoyed the first season of Ganglands on Netflix, but nothing prepared us for the striking visuals of season 2. Not only the daring camera work and lighting that often immersed characters in inky black shadow, but the bold grading as well. So we just had to reach out to Charles Fréville, a highly... Continue Reading →
Coming Soon!
The video of Ha at the restaurant shot with the Komdo on the DJI RS3 Pro looked a bit shaky, so we might have a go at stabilizing the footage with Gyroflow and share the results. Since the trial version of Assimilate Player Pro Studio has unlocked CinemaDNG, we may test it out with some... Continue Reading →
Ganglands: Finally, A Commendable HDR Release
We love us some gritty French action crime drama, and Julien Leclercq's Ganglands (Netflix) doesn't disappoint. The HDR presentation is very effective but, like too many HDR shows, the blacks are crushed, which doesn't bother us at all in this series, but it might annoy some. In season 2, there are countless shots where the actors’ faces... Continue Reading →
Financial Review: Atomos settled sexual harassment suit, made staff ‘drugs mule’
According to reporting by the Financial Review, employees at Atomos confirmed the existence of a drug culture at the tech company, writing: "Atomos agreed to pay out $60,000 to a staff member who alleged a former employee sexually harassed her and expected her to make cocaine and cannabis available to staff, amplifying the troubled tech... Continue Reading →
Pick Up Free Exposure Chart DCTL For 18% Middle Gray
Cullen Kelly's free chart includes 14 different tone curves, including ACES, Arri, Slog3, Log3G10 and DaVinci Intermediate. And here's a tutorial on how to use the exposure chart.
Are 8 Bits Insufficient for HDR Test Patterns?
When Portrait Displays acquired Patterns, they announced: “Patterns™ by Portrait Displays is the first and only macOS test pattern generator to support High Dynamic Range (HDR) on the market. The application uses the latest Metal APIs to support both SDR and HDR color spaces, including (but not limited to) sRGB, BT.709, Adobe RGB (1998), DCI-P3,... Continue Reading →
RED Komodo: Adding Curves While Retaining 18% Gray Point
Since removing the input and output DRTs from all the RCM project settings in our Monster guide (Dolby Vision says to set them to 'none'), we were sort of at a loss as to what to do, since we learned from Cullen Kelly how critical it is to keep 18% gray where it belongs -... Continue Reading →
What exactly is highlight roll-off, does HDR have it, and is it spelled roll off, roll-off or rolloff?
"In film photography, highlight roll off refers to the gradual transition from the highlights (the brightest parts of the image) to the shadows (the darkest parts of the image). This transition is not abrupt, but rather it occurs gradually, giving the image a smooth and natural-looking tonal range." - Quora "On film, if you were... Continue Reading →
Gamut Rings
Although a chromaticity diagram is useful for 2D representations, the color gamut of a display actually needs to be evaluated using a 3D color space that includes the lightness axis. Gamut rings representing a 3D color gamut solid using a 2D diagram are a solution to this problem and have been adopted as an international... Continue Reading →
British Cinematographer: Ed Lachman On The EL Zone System
“I discovered, to my amazement, that IRE stands for the International Radio Engineers,” Lachman says. “They developed the system in 1895, before film even had sound. So as strange as it seems, we’re basing our exposure on radio signal voltage, not photographic exposure of light.” Why are we basing our exposures on sound waves? In... Continue Reading →
Title & Text Brightness Levels, HDR
Typical luminance levels of the titles in our videos. The titles of HDR videos on YouTube are often far too bright for comfortable viewing.
shotPrep
Phil Holland's shotPrep is a handy tool for quickly figuring out delivery resolutions for non-standard formats, like 6K 17:9.
Portrait Displays and MediaTek Collaborate to Launch the World’s First Calman Ready TV Chip
Portrait Displays has teamed up with MediaTek to create the world’s first premium smart TV chip with Calman Ready functionality, greatly simplifying implementation of Calman AutoCal. "On the calibration side, MediaTek Pentonic smart TV chips with Calman Ready integration will support a wide variety of professional calibration and display profiling solutions, from 3×3 color correction... Continue Reading →
QD-OLED vs. WRGB OLED: Red, Green & Blue Pixel Luminance
"On QD-OLEDs, the peak brightness is the sum total of the red, green and blue outputs.... By contrast, [...] WRGB OLEDs use white subpixel boosting to achieve higher brightness, so if we do the same measurements of red luminance, green luminance and blue luminance on a WRGB OLED television, you will see that they only... Continue Reading →
Walter Volpatto on Film Grain
"Unfortunately, I'm changing my mind on grain and I'll explain why. First of all, I love grain. I love the idea of grain; and for me, it reminds me of film. I mean, there is really nothing more obvious than grain to tell you this has been shot on film, and Interstellar was shot on... Continue Reading →
No Love for Film Grain
"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 →
The Daejeon Chronicles 