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Hi Sebv, As I mentioned in my post ...I was shooting at 50fps with shutter of 1/100. The matching of fps and shutter speed is not my dilemma. I think you're misunderstanding that I was not struggling to get sufficient light, as the banding began to appear as I was nearer to the area where there was more light from the windows. Thanks Martin

Hi Sebv, Thanks for your reply. That's interesting, no I didn't try that. I would have thought shooting at an incompatible frame rate here in UK would have made it worse? Also, I'm not sure how to deal with that frame rate in post production as I would need the finished product in 25fps. The natural light was daylight, no street lights on at the time. The banding is horizontal and scrolls down the screen at a fair speed and looks like dark grey shadow lines. Thanks Martin

Hi,I've come across something I don't know how to resolve.I am filming in a hotel that has quite a yellow cast tranquil lighting throughout, not a problem. Then there is this area that has windows which let natural light in. It's a lighter area because of this, great...more light...BUT in this area I have suddenly got the banding lines?I checked my shutter speed and fps, 50fps 1/100 shutter...i thought this should be ok. I dropped the shutter a slow as i can do manually, which was 1/60....this helped but doesn't eliminate the issue. When I moved back to another area that was actually dimmer....the lines go away. What's odd is that the artificial lighting was the same throughout the hotel...only when the natural window light came into play did this happen?Has this got something to do with the mix of lighting....the artificial hotel lighting and natural light from the window? What is there left to do on a DSLR to tackle this issue? I'm using Canon 5D mkIII. Is there a setting on the camera to help with this. White balance didn't affect anything.I didn't think this was an aperture issue as when I stopped down it didn't make any difference to the banding. Similarly, it had nothing to do with the volume of light as the darker area in the hotel was fine but this lighter area caused the issue???Any help would be appreciated as we are shooting a wedding in 2 weeks and iv'e not come across this before.ThanksMartin

A good post and interesting topic. But I don't agree that achieving the filmic look trying to make your video look vintage and old past movies? Moving away from clean video and applying the necessary filters, and shooting settings prevent your finished film looking like the people are in your front room. The beauty of film is that it is removed from from looking like it is there in front of you (boring) and immerses you and draws you into the film. It has to be detached this way, I think it is necessary for different look of film. Apart from this, images too clean can look like amateur home video look. Looking at The Revenant, yes it does look like film, and it's been colour graded etc. I'm not sure what vintage movies you are referring to when you say The Revenant does not look like film but The Revenant sure as heck does not look like clean video. I think achieving a film look is not about vintage past techniques, it's about properly grading footage so it's not like it's in your front room. Cheers

Hi All,I hope I'm in the right place. I am filming at a hotel which has some fairly dim yellow lighting, not a problem in itself, but there is this area where there are windows allowing more natural light to enter......great more light......BUT at this area banding appears!? I checked my shutter speed and fps and which was 50fps 1/100 shutter. f/stop 2.8 but stopping down didn't alter anything. I dropped my shutter as low as I could manually to 60fps which did help but didn't get rid of the lines.What could be causing this? The hotel lighting was the same all over, just the windows allowing more natural light was different at this point. When I walked away from this area to a dimmer area in the hotel the lines went away. I'm confused as there doesn't seem anywhere else to go with the DSLR to deal with this? Any advice anyone? Thanks very muchMartin