Moire pattern with Canon 7D

[Phil Yunker]

[Noah Kadner] “turn down your sharpness settings”
So I’m looking at my picture style settings and I have the sharpness dialed to just one click from zero or all the way down. Same with Contrast, Sat is @ one to the left from center and colour tone is at zero.
You think dialing the sharpness all the way to zero?
Thanks.

PHIL

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[John Frey]

Phil, here is a link to a GH1 Hack tester with brick walls and tiles. Very impressive.

https://www.vimeo.com/12792325

John D. Frey
25 Year owner/operator of two California-based production studios.

Digital West Video Productions of San Luis Obispo and Inland Images of Lake Elsinore

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[Phil Yunker]

Bricks and tile roof look good, no moire.
W.A. is a very cool place, btw.
PHIL

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[Uli Plank]

Yes, I’d always dial sharpening down to zero, it doesn’t do any good. You can always add some sharpening after grading, noise reduction etc. and use more sophisticated and fine-tuneable methods for that.

There’s good reason for RED not to have any in camera sharpening. It’s not bad per se, but you’ll want full control. The only place where it would make sense is video to be used without much post-processing at all. But that’s not what you’d get a DSLR for, that’s the domain of a video camcorder.

All other settings are highly dependent on your set, lighting and desired look. You need to get as close to desired look in camera as possible, since the massive compression together with 8 bit doesn’t leave too much room for grading – you images can fall apart quite easily. For example, I don’t subscribe to the idea of always shooting flat as sometimes suggested. If you need some punch later, you’ll have to stretch those few bits too much. Of course it makes sense with very high-contrast scenes, since the sensor can do much more than 8 bit.

Director of the Institute of Media Research (IMF) at Braunschweig University of Arts

[Phil Yunker]

Uli,
All great info and makes perfect sense to me. I was told to shoot flat and then grad it in post. But your advice on getting it close to your desired look in camera makes sense as well.
Thanks again for all the advice.

PHIL

PHIL YUNKER
Yunker Video Production Services
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