Liam

that makes sense, thanks, @Sekhar

and yes @mercer, that was the perfect amount of vague

Yeah, I've been using the manual kelvin numbers, and when I remember to do it, I think I'm pretty good at it. I'm a little scared of shifts within a shot when doing auto. Also, with auto, couldn't it kind of ruin for example shooting at golden hour? When you want to keep it gold?

Also, when stacking effects, I was just kind of going with my gut (after posting this and realizing order matters). You'd want like NR to be the first effect applied, then white balance, then contrast, then color wheels, then sharpening, then film grain? Maybe that's way off..

interesting! Have a favorite among the three? Unless that would spoil it

pc. there is an effect to crush the blacks and blowout the highlights, but the slider doesn't go the other way, think I've looked pretty thoroughly. might need to buy some pack or get the full version. Editing on it is very Premiere-like as opposed to Avid-like, which is calming to return to :-) might look into Blender (or.. MAYBE actually paying for something) if I eventually decide this is too restrictive

ha, I was giving it a shot just for fun, but I'm also horrible, so might not post any of my results  actually realized I don't even know how to raise blacks or try to pull detail out of the highlights with Hitflim (not that you need those for this task) but I may not be very equipped for any specialist tasks. could be a nice shot to try it with though, since their aren't like street lamps and a bright sun in the shot. definitely would want a bluer, underexposed look for that.

yeah, I'm a fan of ML and the 3x crop on the t3i as well. kinda wish I'd went with the eos-m, myself. old c-mounts sound fun :3

I have sharpness and contrast all the way down on a standard profile and saturation at -1. manual white balance with the arrows like magic lantern allows which I find convenient (though that day I think I think I was filming inside and out, so I kept the white balance kind of in the middle in case I forgot one time to switch and gotten even worse results). I should learn to use a vector scope.. I'm sure that would help. thanks

yeah, That's pretty much my settings. and I was testing pushing it further, with better results than I expected. you're right, it's petty flexible. but still all the colors can shift at some point and get frustrating. and I really do want to preserve like the texture of the skin or the 3d quality of it. I feel like it's easy for them to turn just yellowwww

I saw that wedding, very well done. also a huge Kendy fan and very stingy with money, so very inspirational to me, haha. that wedding (by ricardo I think?) was why I upgraded NLE's, trying to get more out of my gear than I seemed to be able to before. I was just looking at cinestyle. I'll definitely have to give it a try, probably boosting my motivation to learn to use a vector scope.

Thanks for being patient with me guys  I know it didn't look great, and I can be kind of stubborn really :s but this forum is really helpful and encouraging.

yeah taking out the blue definitely helps!

It's cloudy. Thanks again!

hm, thanks guys. feel like probably this isn't the best example if the main problem is that it's way way too blue. I do see it now, but those corrections look really sepia to me and have other issues now, like green sky, guessing because it's so compressed and can't stand to be pushed much.

@Sekhar is that resolve? those tools look more fun to learn with than what I've found on Hitfilm, but you need a pretty good computer to run it right?

Amateur at grading, just fiddling with Hitfilm Express (a little janky.. you just end up with like a million sliders attached to the clip, but better features than my old nle)

t3i, not a fancy grade. Probably had white balance wrong in-camera and didn't want to push too much, so it's still a little too cool I think. maybe overexposed a little too. Honest opinions? too much red in the skins? did the sky end up with a little magenta? over saturated? any beginner grading tutorials you guys found helpful? or better in-camera PP settings to consider if I screwed myself over a little? though maybe I'm just looking for a pat on the back and a confidence boost..

thanks for any feedback. I'll try not to post every test I do

Snapsort tried that kind of.. it's really inaccurate sometimes and only photography cameras, but a good tool at times

I foresee a lot of the same problems phones have with faking depth of field and combining exposures, but I'd still like to see more from this

He who questions development only develops his ability to question.

any reason to think the e-m10ii coming soon will be a step up in any way? other than a nice price point for some of the same features?

watched it with the sound off and missed the point of the video :3

@Mattias Burling had the sound on. The COMPARISON was not the whole video. He preempted by saying don't get rid of your dslr. That's not the comparison shots. The conparison or "test" if there's any way to call it that also wasn't "hey canikon should consider 4k in the future.." that doesn't make any sense. If the iphone won the test, which IS what the guy was saying, then it was because of resolution alone. @Frankie i know, i already said resolution is the only way it wins, which it does.. It'd have to be VERY crappy 4k for it not to. This whole thread is ridiculous, I swear none of us are even on different pages.

well then, sorry, the point of the actual comparison was

1. 4k is better than 1080p..

which is true. 

I watched the video. it's obvious resolution is better on the iphone. that's about all I see. and when it's uncropped, I don't even really see that. he mentions colors, which.. I don't know about that. DR is definitely better on the d750, though yeah, you don't need a million stops. image looks good, it's just a weird paring and weird parameters really

while we're at it, motorcycle technology is really going places too! some of them are almost as big as cars now :o

Nooo..? Wanting a good crop mode on the a7sii with slog3 is not fulfilled by buying another camera without slog3.

yeahh.. ar7ii doesn't mean f*** the crop mode on the sii (plus slog3 is probably the biggest win for this camera anyway)

I counted @BrorSvensson! there's more than 1080p! thanksthough

Do we know for sure that the crop mode will be 1080p? Or just not 4k..? Sorry, should be a simple google of the specs, but a7s with external recorder in crop mode gets you over 2k (upscaled) which would be nice to have in camera in the ii...

thank.

when was the first dynamic range? and battery life?

-Liam

well the 1DC is clearly a detailed image without oversharpening, but I don't know about the xc10. I attached a picture which is too compressed to make any conclusions... hope it settles the discussion once and for all - but no, someone should really confirm whether that video was all just user error or not.. several really disappointing image issues

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZRKfFmUY 

I have thought on several shots from the xc10 that it looked nothing like 4k resolution. The episode the camera store tv shot on it had me checking my resolution setting and reloading the tab over and over. But Mattias's montage night shoot and his assessment of the camera have brought me around a ton on it since first hearing about it(s lens). Hard to actually say anything about resolution from youtube and a 1080p screen anyway, and higher isos of course make it softer. Any lab tests that have shown you the resolution is always shit, or?

Yeah I'm thinking lx100 for both