Wednesday, November 26, 2014
LED panel comparison: color charts, vectorscopes, light loss
People ask me all the time, "what LED panels do you recommend?" "What's the color like on that panel?"and ""Does putting an Airbox Softbox on the light affect the color?", so I decided to do some testing, as
scientifically as possible. What you're looking at is footage shot of
the DSC labs OneShot chart, where each of the color patches is carefully calibrated to match up to the six points on a vectorscope,
as well as four skin tone patches that line up with the "skin tone"
line on a scope. A perfect light source and a perfect camera would land
each of the dots right on the vectorscope
targets.
Monday, November 10, 2014
More lighting and camera gear 2014: FS7, Sourcemaker blanket, Twintube Dolly, Gruvgear Muver
New lighting and camera equipment from 2014 that bears mention:
Sony's Fs7 has been one of the most ballyhooed releases this year. I recently got the chance to do some testing Adam Wilt and Art Adams. Adam Wilt wrote some thorough articles about it which are worth reading. I'm looking forward to reading Arts writeup when its done, but here's my really quick .02 - like the smarty handgrip. All those controls you can operate without taking your eye of the eyepiece! I was also very impressed with the dynamic range. S-log 3, we were actually short of hard pressed to create an indoor situation that exceeded what camera could still resolve. Granted, our biggest light was an 800 joker, but it was still impressive that the camera could still see detail on the t/45 white curtains where the beam of light was hitting them as well as in the unlit T/1 patch of dark wood in the foreground, about eleven stops apart. We'll wait and see the actual test results though once Art has done the edit.
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| Sony FS7, test shoot w/Art Adams and Airbox Lights |
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