Quote from: ddelreal on July 21, 2016, 02:12:26 AM
I know you mentioned lighting but believe me, you have to do more than buy expensive lights. You have to pay for people to help you light. Lighting is one of (if not THE one and only) the most critical aspects of filming. Highlight rolloff is probably the second thing that is noticeable on high quality productions - hence the use of RED, ARRI and BM.
I worked as a lighting tech once for a more sophisticated production and know what you mean. But it's not what I'm talking about. There is some subtle difference between the cameras I can't explain.
Regarding the highlight roll-off, I think that ML RAW does quite a good job. I always do manual ETTR with RAW-Zebras and expose just 1-2 stops before clipping. So you still have detail in the highlights. (There is more information in brighter areas [less noise], and if you need to darken, you are going to edit it anyway.)