Screen shot, Sony a7 III, 85mm f/1.8, Saigon Life Cafe.
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Phuong: Extended Version
I've tweaked the audio, given the video punchier blacks, used the new comic book effect in Final Cut Pro sparingly, reduced the duration of a couple of clips, added new footage of Phuong shot a couple of days ago and removed the green tint in some of the clips. https://youtu.be/vq6wjan2TqU "Evening Forever" by KieLoKazLicense
Saigon Life
A screen shot from this afternoon's shoot with Phuong at Saigon Life Cafe.
Saigon Life
A screen grab from today’s shoot with Phuong at Saigon Life Cafe. Sony a7 III, 85mm f/1.8.
Sony a7 III: Phuong
We met up yesterday morning and took a taxi to the Fine Arts Museum (formerly a private villa designed by a French architect and constructed in the early 20th century) but because of the heavy traffic, instead of the usual ten minutes, it ate up a precious thirty minutes of the two hours I normally... Continue Reading →
Vlogging in 2018
Since switching over to the Sony a7 III, YCImaging's YouTube channel looks dramatically better. The clean image and excellent detail is achieved by downsampling the 4K image from 6K and there's the wonderful full frame shallow depth-of-field, along with pleasing skin tones. Meanwhile, though I dig his meticulous attention to lighting and the orange and... Continue Reading →
My Brand New Sony 24mm f/1.4 Goes in for Service!
https://youtu.be/BwnCmrgvsBU "War" by Shaolin DubLicense
Sony FE 85mm f/1.8
Sony a7 III, Sony FE 85mm f/1.8
Sony a7 III Low Light Test
My first low light test of the Sony a7 III. S-Log2, ISO 8000, no color correction in post, aside from dragging down shadows and midtones and boosting saturation a bit. https://youtu.be/scC26lcC9Pc
Sony a7 III Skin Tones in Butt Ugly Lighting
How do Sony a7 III skin tones fare under some of the most unflattering of all lighting conditions? I decided to find out by shooting some video at a local coffee shop whose mixture of daylight and fluorescent, along with ghastly green walls and green uniforms you can see in the snapshot below. I white... Continue Reading →
Sony a7 III: Magenta Cast
https://youtu.be/qnHb8bD4nqU "Bounced" by Cheese N Pot-CLicense
Sony a7 III: The Perfect B-Cam?
I shared my latest a7 III video and some screengrabs with a respected filmmaker who shoots with the GH5s and asked for his opinion about the tonal transitions, color, noise, detail and highlight roll off. I did not ask him to evaluate nonsense like ISO 100,000, or any other such pointless rubbish cluttering the Internet.... Continue Reading →
More Wholesome a7 III Goodness
https://youtu.be/KC5HnGsgGKU "Submersed Phonics" (JBYo Collab) by SroLicense Screen grabs, ISO 400, Sony 85mm f/1.8 at or around f/3.2, no color correction in post, shadows pulled down slightly.
Further Thoughts on Full Frame After Shooting m4/3 for Five Years
https://youtu.be/eN64GtCmotk Buttons. Two of the most annoying on the a7 III are the menu button, which is inexplicably located to the left of the EVF; and the lens release button, which is tiny and very difficult even with rather slender fingers to reach with the handgrip scrunched so close to the lens mount. Some buttons might advantageously be... Continue Reading →
Sony Distagon T* FE 35mm f/1.4
The Sony Distagon 35mm f/1.4 is a heavyweight among my primes. https://youtu.be/2iEo7NI1e-o "Fission Core" by Parvus DecreeLicense
Sony a7 III: Lousy Skin Tones?
Sony a7 III, Sony 85mm f/1.8, ISO 400, Mixed daylight/fluorescent, no color correction in post People used to say, yeah, but what about Caucasian skin tones? Now they're saying, yeah, but how about under a mix of daylight, fluorescent and tungsten? Oh, I almost forgot - I've heard that skin tones suffer at ISO 100,000!... Continue Reading →
Quick Test: Sony a7 III + Leeming LUT
https://youtu.be/GqJlQEkxntA Paul Leeming has said he will be renting an a7 III and producing a new set of LUTs for the Sony very soon.
Sony a7 III: What About the Skin Tones?
We keep hearing in the online community how awful Sony's skin tones are. Yet when I share images, the usual response is, yeah, Sony's fine for Asians, but Caucasian skin tones are still atrocious. However, when custom white balancing, they're really not all that bad. What I am noticing when watching YouTube videos are abrupt... Continue Reading →
The Daejeon Chronicles 