@miked Thanks! I haven't seen them yet, but I guess one or a few of the guys grew up around here. Or maybe people I know, know them from ECU..either way, there's a lot of local love for them.

@paulo It depends on what you are going for.

The Tiffen low contrast filter does what it says it will, but how much you'll like it depends partly on how consistent your lighting will be and how sharp vs. soft you prefer your footage.

If you prefer your footage a little softer, it can definitely help a bit in a lot of lower light situations, provided you have enough light to keep much of the frame properly exposed to begin with. Remember, the filter is spreading light from the brighter parts to the darker parts, so if you're underexposed across the board, you're just going to end up with a poorly defined mess. That probably goes without saying, but I figured it's best to be clear. :)

Anyway, I found that the upper limit of sharpness that could be achieved when using the filters was lower than without them, but that also meant that it was easier to achieve a pleasant softness when called for.

The filters meant that I had to pay more attention to halation, flares and veiling than I did without them but were often quite useful. I found I used them a lot more when shooting people than when just shooting landscapes and exteriors where I wanted more detail.

I hope that helps somewhat.

Here are some screenshots I posted a while back using various Tiffen Ultra Contrast filter options to shoot just a landscape - I'll see if I can find the ones with my face.

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/70232#Comment_70232

EDIT: Just found the ones with my face. Please excuse the rapidly changing lighting in them - but they are certainly a good illustration of why you don't always want the sharpest image. ;)

http://www.personal-view.com/talks/discussion/comment/62717#Comment_62717

Andi68, please wich 'cluster x' and lenses are you using on video 'flycam nano...vegas'? Moon? Thanks.

@ TATZU

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A little 'on the fly' fun at the park. Spizz T6, 24p, various shutter speeds.

moon T7 L :)

@tuxn Can you clarify a bit?

• What mode are you in (24P, 25P, 30P, 50P, 60P, 50i, 60, VMM) when you get an error?
• Does it fail to record at all, record for a few sessions or does it simply fail to span? To clarify, failing to span means that it records one file about 4GB in size and then stops.
• What is the exact nature of the error (stops recording or gives an error message or camera locks up)?
• Which capacity of the SanDisk Pro 95 MB/s card are you using?

@WarLightUK Thank You So Much It Works AMAZING! FINALLY! Totally worth the measly $20.00

@crowbar: Would you upload the original video before the color grading?

@crowbar you got a gh4? LUCKY! Me wants one i'm on O'ahu you can see some my films https://www.youtube.com/user/TatzuFilms

Hopefully @Driftwood work with the GH4 will improve things because right now the codec is quite harsh in how it deals with highlights, compared with the GH2. They tend to clip out in a very ugly way by comparison to the GH2.

@crowbar and @BurnetRhoades Yeah the bmpcc did look to have a softer look while the gh2 is extremely sharp which is good for nature but bad for people. My main complaint of the entire GH1,2,3,4 line is DYNAMIC RANGE! I find it pretty hideous and it seems like my damn galaxy s5 cell phone has better dynamic range. And constantly filming in the rain-forest dynamic range is a MUST! Maybe gh5?

@ Producer: hi, hey finally had a chance to make a version of the Moon T7 and BMPCC footage comparison with ungraded/graded clips - they appear in the 2nd part here. I just re-graded the clips as of May 27. I realize more and more that not having a professional, calibrated monitor is a real disadvantage - what I see in the NLE turns out very different once exported and then even more once uploaded to Vimeo - has anyone else noticed that Vimeo colors are more reddish/Magenta than what is displayed on your monitor before upload? Plus the Vimeo version looks darker than original. I have grown to like more and more the BMPCC image while still appreciating the hacked GH2 high bit rate image and easier workflow. And now with his own graded example of several of these clips, Producer shows in the next post how cinematic the hacked GH2 can be when graded for such looks.