Christian Kane Black wrote:
Ryan Walters gives a very good background about understanding the issues when filming in low light conditions. And he has a very positive opinion about the B.C.C. indeed.
But I think you will also understand when he says for example :
"[...]- I also have a hunch that the camera does not have an OLPF.[...]"
nothing to understand. This is correct.
Christian Kane Black wrote:"[...]- Some kind of diffusion is needed when filming talent to make the image more pleasing and forgiving."
I always shoot with diffusion on an Epic as well. Lots of people do with even the kindest of formats like film. What is your point ?
You're pointing out one bloggers *subjective* opinion about the sharpness of the bmcc camera. And you didn't address the topic of the thread, which I asked you about.
There is no other camera for any cost that gives you uncompressed DNG, ProRes and DNx in the one internally recording camera period. You can choose to shoot any codec on the same disk. How is this a bad thing ?
You have an issue with DNG for some reason, but if you have all three to shoot, then why is it an issue that you care about ?
If the camera is terrible in low light then those that need that area of performance will shoot something else.
Delta is also performing worse than a BMCC in low light and at a measurable level, but you can still use it. I've got some nice DNGs shot at dusk from it. And it's barely even shipping. I think they've built 5 so far.
The sad news for Aaton is that very few are going to be prepared to pay their premium price for a global shutter s35 optical VF DNG camera. As good as it is, not many will be prepared to pay for it.
I'm genuinely trying to understand the point of your posts. I can give you as many reasons not to shoot on the BMCC if you like, just like I can for an Alexa, Delta and a C300.
I can also say that the low light performance of this camera for the style of shooting I do is very useable. It's not as good as others out there but I think everyone knows that now.
the camera performs better when You ETTR but that doesn't change what the native ISO of the camera is. That changes with how you choose to expose the camera.
You know that Epic / Scarlet is 320 right ? But everyone shoots at 800 on that camera to protect the highlights. You don't do that with the BMCC because it has so much more highlight range. Every camera is different. Its not that hard to understand is it ?
JB.