Gregoryw99

This last weekend I shot some footage at a local import tuner car show. Because I haven't got my lens splint yet I went with the 14-42mm kit as my taking lens. I have a nice set of Nikkors adapted to my GH2 but walking around in a crowded place with that much weight stressing the camera body didn't seem like a good idea.

All but maybe two shots were at 18mm and roughly F4 which meant I didn't need to attach my Tokina. It's also worth noting I haven't enhanced the footage and this was with currently un-hacked firmware. The very slight softness and chromatic aberration at the edges of frame actually looks quite nice to me. In many ways the results remind me of Panavision films from the '70s and '80s (ie. John Carpenter).

[media]http://vimeo.com/50594617[/media]

...I love, love, love this lens.

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Hello. For the ones that missed this:

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Whether the initial part or the final - most likely the final - shot has the correct exposure, the details that the camera can retain in the wronng exposure is pretty impressive. If you would say that the final exposure was the correct one, the way the beginning looked well illuminated and with decent details for the amount of darkness it really was, I think the camera can hold pretty well and it shows the DR it has.

I posted these images to a topic in the anamorphic forum, since it's an additional example of adding grain in post to enhance DSLR video but perhaps even more important is I did not apply any form of traditional sharpening kernal to achieve the improvements in clarity you see here for this Canon 7D footage.

Here are some examples from my most recent project, showing 7D before and after (de-moire, mild tone-mapping for sharpening, simulated high-speed grain from AE, MagicBullet grading)...

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...top two scenes were shot with the kit zoom (car interior with the camera mounted via StickyPod) and the bottom CU was shot with the f1.2 85mm L which is an amazing, amazing lens.

Anyway, as I said, I used a tone-mapping technique on the luminance channel only.  You'll see that I wasn't pushing the technique so far as to go for its pseudo-HDR look.  This method not only provides sharpening with a much higher threshold for false-edging than traditional sharpening but by processing the chroma separately and then re-combining it with the luminance channel I'm able to also do chroma-smoothing/de-moire.