Still playing with the LX100, I tried a lot of profile settings and Highlight/Shadow curves to get the best image for color grading. Finally I recommend the following settings : Contrast -2 / Sharpen -3 / Noise reduction -2 / Saturation 0 Highlight -2 / Shadow -2 As it's impossible to apply a real LOG flat profile in-camera, so I created a LUT to flatten the image the safest way. I based this LUT on the rendering of the VisionLOG profile with some adjustments. Download (.3dl and .cube in ZIP, 2.5MB) : IWLTBAP_Flattener_LUT.zip
I got a LX100 yesterday and I just started to play with the 4K. The image is great for a small and inexpensive camera (I got mine at €500/$545, used but as new). Maybe I'll make a longer post about my opinion on the LX100, but for the time being I love it. Of course we are far away from the quality of the BMCC 4K but I bought the LX100 to downscale in 1080p and get a beautiful image. For info, I downscale easily with RockyMountains (freeware). First thing I noticed is that the 4K image can have a grain a bit thick in dark scenes, even a low ISO. For example below, I shot at 100 ISO indoor and in this 4K 100% crop you can see the "thick grain". I tried to reduce this grain in a non-destructive way and finally I got this result via curves and levels : Before : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8492265/iwltbapluts/crop-LX100-before.jpg After : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8492265/iwltbapluts/crop-LX100-after.jpg GIF before/after : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8492265/iwltbapluts/lx100-lut-grain-reducer-before-after.gif I made a LUT (.3dl and .cube in ZIP, 3.5MB), feel free to test : IWLTBAP_LX100_Grain_Reduction.zip PS : Yes, I'm aware that a LUT can't modify an image, but just the colors ; here I tried to reduce the chroma of grain/noise and unify the whole in reducing the overall light. Hope it helps
