Fs7 grain

[D j Harris]

Hi Blaise,

Ok, sounds good, yes I was just using one Lumetri effect (we just switched to Premiere recently so not fully up to speed with it yet).

I did have one question actually, I’ve just set the camera up to do some tests so we know what we are doing and what effect things have – I did have a question about the gain switch when in Cine EL mode – I am confused about what it is actually doing. It seems to indicate it is changing the ISO somehow (from the menu display) from 800/1600/3200 but I gather this isn’t what it’s really doing, I have read some things that seem to indicate it’s something you do in post, but I don’t understand what. I think we usually shoot with it it the low position. Any recommendations here?

[Blaise Douros]

In Cine EI mode, the ISO does not change when you change the setting. It is always set to 2000. However, you can “rate” it the way you would a film stock by pushing or pulling the image in post based on the Exposure Index (EI, get it?) you’ve set in the camera.

If you have an MLUT applied, and you change the ISO/Gain setting, the MLUT will show you what the image would look like if you had set that ISO, but the camera will still record in 2000. What this does is allow you to see a clean, correctly exposed image in the monitor, while still shooting to protect either highlights or shadows (depending on the situation). Let’s say you want to protect highlights; you raise the Exposure Index by a stop, which means you will end up adjusting the exposure down a stop to compensate. In post, the image will be underexposed by a stop, but the highlights will be protected.

[Richard Herd]

2000! Holy crap. This brings up so many questions!

Do you have a depth of field chart for the FS7? I googled of course but it was hard to suffer through all the noise.

Thanks!