Hello all, Im grading a documentary that was shot (mostly) on a canon 90D using cinestyle and other canon cameras with a proper log profile. Im not really sure how I should behave here, like what values should i use on cst to make it look closer to the other cameras?
Would it be easier to make the log footage look like the canon 90D? Im not sure of what to use as input and output in cst
Thanks in advance
Lowlight Concerns With the 90D
Color Space Transform - which color input space for canon 90D ?
Videos
I’m new to videography and am filming a little video this weekend that I cannot redo, so it must be perfect on first attempt. On my Canon 90D, should I shoot it in Cinestyle? Or the already-best looking profile I can find?
Correct me if I’m wrong, Cinestyle is boring and flat on purpose so that you have more freedom to edit in post, right?
Is this still a thing you guys use? I used it for photography last weekend and my god it looked horrible, even after massive editing.
Any other tips assuming I know very little about what I’m about to do?
It was supposed to give you more dynamic range to edit in post but in reality it doesn't. For example, take one of the older cameras that didn't have LOG, like the Canon 5D Mark iii or the 6D. It can give you that flat look so you can bring up the highlights and bring down the shadows in post BUT.....
If you do a test and put it up against a Canon picture profile, like Neutral or Standard, you will find that you can actually push it much further.
I remember using cinestyle and under exposing by like 3 stops and bringing it back to normal and there was noise everywhere. I did the same thing with Neutral and there really wasn't that much noise from bringing it back. At least not as much as Cinestyle.
A lot of people started figuring that out, that it actually had less dynamic range but it tricked people into thinking they were getting more because it would record everything in the middle of the histogram basically and you could put it all the way to the right. So in theory you won't have to raise shadows and reveal noise, etc.
You definitely do not use it for photography. Photography has RAW. Back then most cameras could not handle RAW video, even today, the newest cameras that do have RAW video can't go that long with it. It was a way of trying to get more information without having to shoot RAW because you couldn't and they didn't have CLOG on those cameras like they do today.
With photos you want to use RAW as it gives you all the information off your sensor. You can get a ton of data from it.
Just earlier I took some photos and some of them were good so I wanted to keep them but the exposure was way off because I didn't have time and it was a moving subject in the house. A cat.
So, most of the pictures looked either pitch black or over exposed and I was able to bring it all back to normal in Lightroom and it looks completely correct because I shoot RAW.
Here is one of the photo's I took tonight where I did that:
https://ibb.co/Q6KM1CJ
Just use Magic Lantern for video if it's available for the camera.
I currently have a canon T4i and am ready for an upgrade. I’m starting to do freelance photography jobs and need something with better performance. Right now I’m mainly looking at the 90d.
I mainly shoot skateboarding and action sports so a high drive speed is needed. A lot of time I shoot in low light with a flash and I have noticed that the t4i produces useable images below 800 ish iso (to be expected) Anything over and there is too much noise.
I like everything about the 90d other than the fact it is cropped. Lowlight performance is important to me and I am hesitant to invest in a cropped camera. As well, the megapixel count is high and I’ve head that this can also increase the noise. Problem is there isn’t a great mirrorless or dslr from canon with comparable specs (10fps drive speed, 1080 120, 4K, uhs II, etc)
My questions are:
Your opinion on the 90d. Specifically noise/lowlight issues. What’s the max iso you can get good results with?
Does having more megapixels increase noise?
Is the 90d cropped sensor going to perform significantly better than my old t4i in terms of lowlight performance or should I hold off for the right full frame?
hi all, been looking at newer ways to color grade, and notice the color space transform, but can't find a mode that works with my footage from the 90D.
The technicolor 'cinestyle' profile flattens the image alot, and looking to see if color space transform can be used for my situation to apply a 'baseline' grade.
thanks for any help.