Sat Mar 13, 2021 7:33 pm
Hey, I see a war, I jump in !
First post here. I am a complete beginner ! I had - shortly - a Pocket 4K, and I recently bought the 6K Pro.
I did some testing (thanks to the nice and detailed explanations of Marc Jungbluth, and my vectorscope is really not at all moving from the center on clear and ND 2. On ND 4, it goes blue a bit, and a bit more with the ND 6. My monitor is great, but not like calibrated weekly, and I could not notice the shift without the "maths" of Da Vinci. So, for me, censor is ok, and nds are ok.
Are the internal NDs as good as 1000+ euros/dollars ND filters you put in a matte box ? I can't tell, once again, I am a noob, and I never used some.
Are the internal NDs as good as a 200 euros variable ND filter ? From my experience, the internal NDs of MY Pocket 6 pro are way way better, and have less color shifting.
About the tint of the LCD screen, this is a pointless conversation on my camera. The screen is blue, no matter the setting, no matter what I do, it is blue as ****. I have mixed feeling about it.
In one hand, I don't trust my eyes, nor my lcd screen, not my MBP screen. I don't know much about grading, but I have been told to trust the numbers when you want accuracy. When people say "you could be mislead by setting your WB from the screen", I am a bit surprised, cause I would never do that. There are not much values to learn, and when you are outside in a bright day, well, I would go with 5600 k, no matter what my eyes see on the monitor. Plus, on my camera, the AWB works well, I did some tests in the dark, with a 2700 k bulb, and the camera detects it.
That being say, even if I don't NEED the monitor temperature to be accurate, I don't appreciate if BMD simply says "it's a monitor, deal with it". So if they are not able to provide a solution for that, it would still be - in my opinion - a huge deception.
In short : My Camera seems to shoot pretty accurate white with and without NDs, I don't expect my internal NDs to be as good as top quality pro ND filters, and my LCD screen is as blue as a smurf.
And I love Matteo Bertoli, he thought me so much about film making, that doesn't mean I am going to throw my P6K pro because his as problems.