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1DX II Noise at ISO 100


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I have been noticing quite a bit of noise in the shadows when filmed at ISO 100. Not entirely sure how much of it is from my color grading (Made LUT from Lightroom). I see some noise when lifting shadows before grading, but not nearly as much. I have a feeling I might just be hitting the limits of 8-bit, but I sometimes see a ton of noise in untouched 120p 1080 footage. Not sure if there might be something up with my camera, I didn't notice any noise before. I will end up using neat video or something of the sort soon. 

Here is a quick video I just put together; you can see it when watching in 4k on a monitor when it is a headshot. 

 

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Thanks for looking at it. I barely brought back any shadows in some of these clips. I have a video on Alcatraz, where inside the prison, there are a few scenes that are perfectly exposed (no post adjust), yet the areas of the scene that are just barely darker have a lot of noise. 

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Just now, Snowbro said:

Thanks for looking at it. I barely brought back any shadows in some of these clips. I have a video on Alcatraz, where inside the prison, there are a few scenes that are perfectly exposed (no post adjust), yet the areas of the scene that are just barely darker have a lot of noise. 

In those cases, it might be best to give more exposure and pull the shadows down in post. The image will be cleaner. 

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25 minutes ago, jonpais said:

In those cases, it might be best to give more exposure and pull the shadows down in post. The image will be cleaner. 

That's what I did on my Sony when shooting LOG. I found many pros mention to not clip highlights with the 1DX; footage does have a harder time coming back from over exposure than under. I usually expose a tiny bit brighter than what my final correction will be in post. Really wish they had put CLOG in this, I tried the fake ones & I couldn't pull the blacks back down to what I would like to see. Feels like there is IQ loss with the ones I tested vs a neutral canon profile (btw, I shot this on the faithful profile with contrast/sharpening all the way down & -2 saturation)

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50 minutes ago, Snowbro said:

I am wondering if it is because there is no internal NR on the camera when in video mode (just noticed this)

I didn’t know that either... that’s a good thing, though. If I were you, I would ditch Faithful and try Prolost Neutral settings. Is this mostly happening in 120p with 1/240 shutter? Are you using the in camera meter to judge exposure?

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7 hours ago, mercer said:

I didn’t know that either... that’s a good thing, though. If I were you, I would ditch Faithful and try Prolost Neutral settings. Is this mostly happening in 120p with 1/240 shutter? Are you using the in camera meter to judge exposure?

I tried cinestyle & marvels, but not prolost yet. It is happening in all recording modes. I always have my shutter st double my framerate. I tested tons of different exposures & looked at them in post; they all had a decent amount of noise in any area that had shadows in person. It's very odd because I had ran tests when first receiving the camera & I couldn't even see any noise at various settings/lighting conditions. 

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I don't know why I didn't realize this before, but I have much more noise while shooting in 4k (especially 4k 60) than 1080p 24 or even 1080p 120. I just watched some of my videos on YT and the last few I did were 1080, where I didn't have any issues with noise. I guess the sensor cropping to 4k has some sort of impact on noise. 

I started doing 1080p out of laziness (don't have to convert the mjpeg to prevent banding etc) and the fact that most view on mobile. I do have to say though, the 4k out of this camera really is amazing. I  hope that when Canon does make some mirrorless FF, its on this level. I also really hope that they have a shutter lock out when changing lenses, unless a manual cleaning option is hit in the camera or something. I have used mirrorless before, I literally had the sensor cleaned that day, changed a lens in the field and had footage ruined from sensor dust that happened with a quick swap. Every channel I see using a mirrorless, has sensor dust on at least one out of 3 videos haha.

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