Just testing a rented spark right now and trying to get a sense how I can judge exposure and whats actually in the RAWs.
For example thats how the clip comes in as Rec709 in Resolve:
It was clearly clipped when I shot it but did not look quite as bad. Once set to LOG and with my quick Slog3 transform + a creative LUT, things look really nice. No detail lost.
My question is: how can you confidentially exposure and know that your highlights are not clipped. Obviously underexposing until nothing is clipped in Rec709 preview would result in a massively underexposed image and create noise issues.
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There needs to be a LOG preview that matches the BMD Film Log that Resolve gets.
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Preferably a Cube LUT could be loaded - worst case the LUT could be applied in-monitor.
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A highlight clipping indicator (like RED has with its goalpost or Sony coloring clipped areas of the image red) and a False Color a la EL Zone would be insanely helpful.
Nothing worse than blown highlights and with cameras that already have a limited DR, really nailing exposure will be crucial.
Last but not least, I just ran a very rudimentary DR test and it appears that DR stays consistent between 400, 800 and 1600 ISO. So the camera is indeed not what a traditional Dual-ISO camera would be. Each is a native, analog ISO without any gamma-redistribution like you’d experience with most modern cameras (Alexa, Venice, REDs etc). Need to do more testing but thought this was an interesting finding to share!
Cheers!
