Very nice! What resolution and fps did you shoot at, and what pp workflow did you use? You've got a lot more detail in those shots than I have been able to get.
Shot entirely in 1152 x 432 @ 23,976 fps 14 bit (RGB) RAW
Transcend 32 GB Class 10 (mem hack enabled)
shown bitrate whilst recording: up to 19,5 MB/s after a few seconds "warm up"
Flow:
- rawanizer=> dng
- canon raw software => tiff ( "grading" done completely in raw then exported as 12 bit tiffs)
- Quicktime => dnxhd 10bit
- editing/scaling in lightworks
this is a very slow workflow. i chose it because it gave me the most speed in developing the RAWs (since i´m used to photo raw since years) and maintained the image quality through the rest of the process. no furthermore color adjustments happened in the editing process.
i´m still waiting for a workflow to generate DNGs, that can be imported straight into resolve and treat the files as native camera raw. can´t resolve do 14 bit DNGs? it just opens the preview jpegs....
in the future a special ML RAW camera specific LUT (picture profile to address CA and maybe aliasing) for recording and a resolve specific RAW setting (debayering and optimized color matrix) would be the absolute killer-killer icing on the cake feature.
lenses used:
- canon 28 mm f 2.8
- canon 18-55 mm f 3.5-5.6
- canon 50 mm f 1.8
+ ND 4 Filter (Cokin)
i always used an aperture above f 5 an below f 14 to achieve the best possible sharpness and mostly exposed for the highlights. exposing the highlights till they´re not overexposed and then adding one f-stop more turned out to be always recoverable while developing. sometimes even more.
shadows and blacks are pushed till a nearly flat image is achieved. then fine tune with curves to get contrast and adjust gamma. here and there some color tweaks, minor sharpening, noise reduction.
activate CA reduction and edge defringing. no further lens corrections. there should be no lens distortion or vignetting since the huge crop factor.
but there are some limitations:
you can´t go to the maximums when pushing or squeezing luminance or contrast color channel wise. ( in ACR this is the place where you can read such things as "aquas" or "magentas" )
when using extreme settings you´ll get ugly noise. not visible in a still, but very noticeable in moving image sequences.
in my opinion color resolution always beats pixel resolution. sharpening and scaling algorithms benefit so much from the added image information. also the much better motion resolution is incredible (the reason why twixtor or nukes kronos can achieve much better interpolated images)
i hope, this information is sufficient for now
and i hope some skilled people are able to address the memory controllers limitations physically. maybe a way to replace it with a faster one or to convert the data lines into IDE or even SATA.... well.....i´m just dreaming
