Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for sharing advice with me. I will follow the necessary steps to better myself.

Have a great one.

I hope I didn’t come off as too cold on my latest answer.

I am incredibly grateful to you and anyone who takes the time out of their day to respond to people like me, as I’m trying to figure out my direction as I’m going. I want to learn everything I possibly can to be the ideal team player on a production, and hopefully one day a great…

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Thank you for your input Micheal,

I believe non-log profile images are more forgiving in ISOs when it comes to dynamic range. I think it’s safe to move it around without affecting highlights too much. Or so i’ve learned.

Mads,

Thank you for taking the time to reply. Your input is incredibly useful to me.

Through this experience I’ve learned to dissociate myself from the project when it is not mine, and not be as personal when it comes to perfecting image quality, as long as production is happy. I can sometimes disagree with the final demands, but ultimately it’s…

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Hi Mads. Thank you for your reply.

You are correct in that the deliverables were expected very shortly following the shoot, and the other filmmaker, like you, was mainly thinking as an editor and was tweaking the settings as such.

We had a wide shot on a7siii, and 2 close ups on a73 and Fx3. The other filmmaker dialed every camera to 8 bit 4.2.0,…

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I was shooting well-lit interviews with another filmmaker and he had a sony A73 (not a7siii) and was filming in a non-log picture profile (I believe it was cine4) and he dialed his iso to 200, which really itched me in the wrong way.

As someone who shoots 90% of my projects in s-log 3 with native ISO 800 or 12800, and using ND to correctly… Read more