Vincent LAM Posted December 16, 2009 Share Posted December 16, 2009 Hi, i've seen some of them look like film, nice contrast and gamma. anyone would like to share some picture style preset..? many thx V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Satsuki Murashige Posted December 16, 2009 Premium Member Share Posted December 16, 2009 I usually use: Picture Style: Neutral Sharpness: +2 Contrast: -4 Saturation: -2 Tint: 0 Seems to work well. Haven't tried custom curves yet. The different picture styles seem to use different gammas and knee compression, Neutral doesn't roll highlights off very gracefully but seems to retain the most detail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Phil Rhodes Posted December 16, 2009 Premium Member Share Posted December 16, 2009 As far as I can tell the most important thing was to knock saturation back a bit and minimise contrast. I only did a review of the thing but the pictures are subjectively quite nice if you do that. The default picture style is appalling, clippy and nasty - I have no idea who designed it but it is lethally bad. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Thomas Posted December 17, 2009 Share Posted December 17, 2009 I usually use: Picture Style: Neutral Sharpness: +2 Contrast: -4 Saturation: -2 Tint: 0 Seems to work well. Haven't tried custom curves yet. The different picture styles seem to use different gammas and knee compression, Neutral doesn't roll highlights off very gracefully but seems to retain the most detail. Yeah, I just found that super flat01 picture style and the Marvel picture style. Once I finally get a lens of my own for my camera I'm interested in doing some tests and seeing how it handles things compared to the neutral picture style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Satsuki Murashige Posted December 17, 2009 Premium Member Share Posted December 17, 2009 Yeah, I just found that super flat01 picture style and the Marvel picture style. Once I finally get a lens of my own for my camera I'm interested in doing some tests and seeing how it handles things compared to the neutral picture style. Watch out when using the "super flat" curves, I hear they can do some weird things to skin tones once the contrast is dialed back in during post. When am I gonna get my CF card back, Ryan? Hope you like the footage from the shoot, sorry about getting mud on your new camera. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram Shani Posted December 18, 2009 Share Posted December 18, 2009 read all about it: http://www.cinema5d.com/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=3401 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan knight Posted January 26, 2010 Share Posted January 26, 2010 how do the two compare to each other? does the 5D MKII's bigger sensor blow the 7D out of the water, or are the MKII's images only marginally cleaner/crisper/(enter your own adjective here) than the 7D's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Satsuki Murashige Posted January 27, 2010 Premium Member Share Posted January 27, 2010 how do the two compare to each other? does the 5D MKII's bigger sensor blow the 7D out of the water, or are the MKII's images only marginally cleaner/crisper/(enter your own adjective here) than the 7D's? the 5d is marginally cleaner and sharper at higher iso. At 100-400iso, they are virtually indistinguishable (other than framerate and field of view). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan knight Posted January 27, 2010 Share Posted January 27, 2010 the 5d is marginally cleaner and sharper at higher iso. At 100-400iso, they are virtually indistinguishable (other than framerate and field of view). really? only marginally? would better optics (on both, compared) make the 5D shine more, or would it stay rather insignificant? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Satsuki Murashige Posted January 27, 2010 Premium Member Share Posted January 27, 2010 really? only marginally? would better optics (on both, compared) make the 5D shine more, or would it stay rather insignificant? Hard to say. I was working on a music vid on which we were intercutting two 7Ds and one 5D using Canon L glass, as well nikon, pentax, and sigma glass. It all looked fine at 1080. Maybe zeiss, panavision, or leica glass would make more of a difference, I dunno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ram Shani Posted January 28, 2010 Share Posted January 28, 2010 i use the superflat for over 6 projects and i just love it and what it do to the skin tone it tried over 20 setups and superflat is the best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Camp Posted November 26, 2010 Share Posted November 26, 2010 I have written about our complaints with Superflat, cine-gamma, and some of the others out there and posted our response in the form of a free picture style. Let me know what you think.. Free Download: Shutter Down Pancake Picture Style for Canon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Hal Smith Posted November 26, 2010 Premium Member Share Posted November 26, 2010 Both photos would have been improved with a little powder on the subjects. No camera system is perfect but a good makeup artist can help work around a given system's problems with skin tone rendition and excessive highlights. Many of the pros shooting the Canon HDSLR's have come to the conclusion that "Getting the Shot in the Camera" is the best approach since its 8bit H.264 files are so fragile in post. I've shot a lot of color reversal over the years, I shoot with my 7D imagining it's loaded with Ektachrome to stay within the camera's available dynamic range. That's working out pretty well for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hampus Bystrom Posted November 26, 2010 Share Posted November 26, 2010 Don't use superflat, at least not when trying to deduce exposure. Numerous times my DP have wrongly judged the exposure because the curve is so flattened at both ends, when trying to gauge the exposure I would suggest using Satsuki's settings and then switching over to superflat just before shooting. Shane Hurlbut talks about this on his blog. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Bill Totolo Posted November 27, 2010 Premium Member Share Posted November 27, 2010 I usually use: Picture Style: Neutral Sharpness: +2 Contrast: -4 Saturation: -2 Tint: 0 Seems to work well. Haven't tried custom curves yet. The different picture styles seem to use different gammas and knee compression, Neutral doesn't roll highlights off very gracefully but seems to retain the most detail. My humble opinion is to knock down sharpness in camera and manage that in post. Seems to help w/ moire issues. I use a 5D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Camp Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 Both photos would have been improved with a little powder on the subjects. No camera system is perfect but a good makeup artist can help work around a given system's problems with skin tone rendition and excessive highlights. This is actually a single frame from a nightclub shoot. No possibility of make-up in natural settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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