Ulysses Paiva wrote:Am I the only one who thinks these over and under exposed tests are just unuseful? Its like they are running out of excuses to justify one camera over the other (image quality wise) and the only thing that would make you see the real benefits is shooting something in extreme conditions no one would ever shoot.
You're not. I'm with you; the vast majority of these comparisons fall into the clickbait category, and most of the people posting them are using the clicks to market the stuff they own... which is why it's almost always the cast that the camera they own "wins" the comparison.
There ARE differences, obviously... though those differences aren't always obvious. We're at the point where image quality wise, the difference is in the DP rather than in the camera.
That's not to say that the cameras are all identical, either; their color rendition reflects their designer's preferences. Arri's look is reminiscent of Kodak's Vision negative film, Panasonic's look more resembles Fuji Astia (I used Astia when I was photographing people in nature on 4x5). Red's reminds me more of Kodak E100G, which I switched to for color when Fuji discontinued Velvia, though Velvia's skin tones weren't quite as natural, because it had such a vivid look (and a whopping 3 stops of dynamic range, unless you had access to a Linotype-Hell drum scanner and someone who knew how to use it).
but, come on, who is gonna shoot something 6 stops away from ideal exposure???
The "run 'n gun" type, mostly.
you can shoot shorts, features, commercial and everything high end or not with high quality if you do it right like the old cinematography masters used to.
Yep. That's exactly it. And exactly why 90% of what we'll see from the new Pocket 4K will be test shoots, followed by excuses for why it's not quite good enough, feature it's missing that they "absolutely need for this film" and so on.
The Pocket 4K removes the barriers for people who are willing to learn the art of cinematography but don't have the bux for a Helium or Varicam or Alexa Mini, but in the hands of the lazy wingdings, it's just going to reveal their incompetence in more detail and with more accurate color than ever before.
Fortunately, the people who have talent or are willing to put the effort into developing it will have stuff to show long after the test shooters get bored with and find another new toy in the hopes that it has a talent button and then we'll see what these cameras can REALLY do in talented hands.
And hopefully by then I'll have a BMPCC4K too