F23 vs. Viper in RGB Mode

[Jerry Doran]

If you were shooting 4:4:4 and wanted to do on-set color correction, which camera is preferable, the F23 or the Viper (shooting in RGB mode)? What are the advantages of each?

[Stephen Williams]

If you were shooting 4:4:4 and wanted to do on-set color correction, which camera is preferable, the F23 or the Viper (shooting in RGB mode)? What are the advantages of each?

 

Hi,

 

Seems a bit of a waste of those cameras doing on set color correction IMO.

 

Stephen

[Mike Krumlauf]

I would like to dig up this old post and actually find an answer to it. Which camera has the better color repo. and DR on a technical level, the Viper or F23. I understand more films were shot on the viper but the viper had a longer street life than the F23 as the F23 was replaced by the F35 fairly quickly, so people ignored the 23.

[David Mullen ASC]

I think the Sony F23 allowed 444 Sony Log output to an external recorder, which would make it similar to the Viper output and quality in theory.

[Phil Rhodes]

I don't know enough about F23 to directly compare, but I've always felt Viper has very, very nice colour under the right conditions. It had a very minimal processing scheme that can be thought of as being fairly close to raw, it has that nice multi-subpixel sensor (block).