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Hi all,
I wanted to share an initial test I did with the Pocket camera (a couple weeks ago, now) against my Epic. Mostly I was testing for inter-cut-ability for a doc I'm shooting at the moment, so these have been graded for matching. General impression is quite good, but certainly not with the nuance in skin tone rendition of the Epic (I wasn't expecting to get an ideal match to the Epic, of course).
My main complaint is that there appears to be sharpening that, for me, is most unwelcome. It's painfully clear in the sharpness chart and not quite as painfully clear in my daughter's hair and chin line.
It also occurred to me that what appears to be sharpening, may be a lack of OLPF (optical low pass filter, for anyone who isn't familiar with the abbreviation). I'd love to hear any comment from someone at BMD about which it is, and if it's sharpening, if it might be turned off in latter firmware upgrades. If sharpening, I assume (hope) that it won't be present in the RAW, but RAW means different things to different manufacturers. If OLPF, then I'm afraid I'll be testing some light diffusion filters.
This test doesn't account for any of the highlight issues that have been widely observed (and my camera does exibit the orb effect.
This is a JPG, but it compares very favorably to the uncompressed version. This is a 1:1 crop from 1920x1080 ProResHQ (in the case of the Epic, rendered from 4K RAW).
Cheers,
Frazer Bradshaw
DP Oakland, CA (but currently in Rome)
I wanted to share an initial test I did with the Pocket camera (a couple weeks ago, now) against my Epic. Mostly I was testing for inter-cut-ability for a doc I'm shooting at the moment, so these have been graded for matching. General impression is quite good, but certainly not with the nuance in skin tone rendition of the Epic (I wasn't expecting to get an ideal match to the Epic, of course).
My main complaint is that there appears to be sharpening that, for me, is most unwelcome. It's painfully clear in the sharpness chart and not quite as painfully clear in my daughter's hair and chin line.
It also occurred to me that what appears to be sharpening, may be a lack of OLPF (optical low pass filter, for anyone who isn't familiar with the abbreviation). I'd love to hear any comment from someone at BMD about which it is, and if it's sharpening, if it might be turned off in latter firmware upgrades. If sharpening, I assume (hope) that it won't be present in the RAW, but RAW means different things to different manufacturers. If OLPF, then I'm afraid I'll be testing some light diffusion filters.
This test doesn't account for any of the highlight issues that have been widely observed (and my camera does exibit the orb effect.
This is a JPG, but it compares very favorably to the uncompressed version. This is a 1:1 crop from 1920x1080 ProResHQ (in the case of the Epic, rendered from 4K RAW).
Cheers,
Frazer Bradshaw
DP Oakland, CA (but currently in Rome)
Frazer Bradshaw
Director of Photography
Oakland, CA
Director of Photography
Oakland, CA