Something new, something fresh, something light and with many features.Ĭontrary to what people may think when looking at my portfolio I never ever adopted the tripod dogma. So one night while in a photo vacation in northern Spain I returned tired to the hotel room and decided that this was the moment I would change systems. And even with the 5d mark 4 the 4k video was crippled by the crop and the codec. And the year passed, the 5d mark 3 and then mark 4 appeared. It was a decent but I had a feeling that this, unless Canon changed, would be my last Canon camera. After the 5d mark 2 I moved to the 6d which was a bit better for photo but worse for video. But the same innovation it brought it also killed out of fear of cannibalizing their own high end camera sales. Yes, the 5d mark 2 truly and honestly revolutionized and changed the world forever. I moved to fullframe 8 years ago mostly because Canon innovated and brought cinema like capabilities into a photography body. About how even back then mirrorless systems with capabilities way better than I could dream of started popping up like mushrooms after the rain. This help me so far in mixed light condition when shooting at high ISO where you are left with the smallest grading latitude (i.e.I have been mumbling for more than 3 years ( here, here) about my own frustrations of being caughtin an old and dying ecosystem, about how both the giants (Canon and Nikon) simply refuse to evolve, and basing themselves on the niche that is also caught in dubious dogmas. This seems to improve color reproduction tremendously. There is also the video of Mathieu Gasquet on G9 vs EM1 MK II.ģ) Since I have Xrite ColorChecker Passport Video (a month or so) I use the grey card to set my custom white balance. I see the same problem as reported by DPreview in the EM10 MKIII review (still jpg). I’m not a pro for grading and I was not able to fix some of my forage it in post. This is particularly true in high scene dynamic (gradatation set to Auto) where I see fluorescent green or pink cast. Furthermore, the camera really struggles to set an appropriate value the minute you are not in daylight condition.Ģ) I’m only shooting flat profile now, I found colors too much saturated in other profiles and that shows when you have skin tone in the image. This can’t be fix in post without a huge effort. Here’s mine, feel free to comment I’m working hard to improve my footage result.ġ) I don’t use the automatic white balance anymore because the camera never stops adjusting the color for any small change in image composition (i.e. I’m curios which conclusion you will draw to achieve the best color rendition. I will probably not use it, since I don’t see yet a big advantage (neither for the automatic calibration tools) and I’m not ready to change my editing tools for that. The changes seem mostly limited to luminance (I did not see much difference in color in my test footage). I compared the effect of the Olympus LUT and the automatic calibration only for a short time, but I don’t see that the LUT really helps much. However, it failed without too much surprise! I then installed the free version of Davinci Resolve to try the LUT and the automatic Color Match tools with my newly acquire Xrite ColorChecker Passport Video. I’m using Adobe Premiere for editing so I tried to load the look-up table since Premiere seems to support. Thank you to put time to share your experience on this topic, I have hard time to find valuable people to talk about Olympus video color grading. What are your thoughts? See any interesting differences? Aside from that I need to experiment some more and get a better feel if this will become my starting point or if I will keep using my own adjustments directly from flat. Even after the LUT is applied, that clip still shows detail in the brightest areas the two natural profiles don’t seem to show as well. ![]() I definitely see the highlights retained better in both flat clips. Nothing crazy or scientific, just wanted to see the difference side by side. Light is a Paul Buff Digibee 800 with a large wescott umbrella to camera left. ![]() ![]() Make sure to check it out full screen at 1080P quality. Natural Profile with Contrast, Saturation, and Sharpness all -2 in-camera. I’ve put together a quick video comparison of the E-M1 mkII flat profile. They certainly didn’t make that link obvious. You can get the file for both the E-M5 mkII and E-M1 mkII from Olympus here. Olympus released the new LUT for their flat profile.
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