mattias wrote:cool, and congrats roger.
Thanks!
mattias wrote:as expected the sniper and rank footage have the same sharpness and show similar color fidelity, but the sniper has some excessive contrast due to the use of a video camera.
Well I'd hardly call it "excessive". In fact, I was really happy that they were so similar. (at least on my monitor!)
In actuality, the contrast is kind of arbitrary because we increased it ourselves during post. The original was actually quite a bit flatter but we punched it up to please our eye for the test without regard to what their transfer looked like. And if you look closely, the contrast is really only higher on our transfer in shots 1 and 3. But in shots number 2 and 4, you'll see that our image has more detail in the shadows and highlights than CinePost's. To be fair to CinePost, I'm certain that they could have made shot 4 look much better. Perhaps they didn't realize the intent of the test. They certainly cropped in much more than we did. In all, I was as surprised as anyone that our transfer compared so well in such a blind test.
But the use of a video camera does seem to accentuate the grain more, even with the detail turned down to the lowest setting. I suppose we could transfer with the detail turned off completely but it's so damned scary because it just turns to mush and you wonder if you'll ever get a sharp picture out of it later on!
Roger
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