Gold Rare Gravity Stop Exposure Zones

Oooh boi what a DCTL geek you are!

 

hahahahaha

I'm working on a lens Powergrade collection wait for that, it's going to be crazy. I don't know if people will like it or not and it might take a while since I have to buy/trade/exchange multiple lenses. I've been able to capture a footage on 3 summiluxes and 9 sigma lenses to build this powergrades, can't get my hands on signature primes is just not happening (plus no shoot I've been on can afford them or what to shoot on them).

The idea is to build a lens character builder for people like me that prefer to shoot like Fincher & Erik SUPERCLEAN and then build upon that in post. i.e.: atlas orion, cooke, helios, soviet lens collection, rehoused series A/B/C, specific film lensing based on a film and what not.

Much more difficult than I anticipated to make tbh and barely have the time but its WIP. I'll try not to give up.

Note: some of these dctls/PWGr. might require people to have scatter or mononodesPWGr/DCTLs for the best results and accuracy


TLDR IM YAPPING TOO MUCH: Most of us can't afford to buy/rent PEAK CINE GLASS for personal projects so... don't worry shoot with a CPL + ND Filter and your favourite canon/sigma/sony lens then fine tune and perfect the look you want to go for in post.

 

Brother I don't mind your yapping haha!! Keep cooking! Your contribution is a bless for this community

 

Thanks Bro

 

Thanks , I will check this out. Just curios how the LUT can work with exposure. I have been using False Colors for years and it get's me where I need to be but wondering how these "Luts" would work in camera or on a Monitor. I always thought false colors was needed to actually show you the different exposure areas and was actually needed in a monitor's OS system in order to work, not a LUT.
Does this actually work when exporting a LUT and trying to use it in a Monitor? Do the color actually change when you change your exposure so you can nail the 18%? Hope that makes sense but I do not see how the color would change as the exposure changes to actually use this?
Thanks.
Have you actually made a LUT and tried this in a Monitor?
I understand how it works in Davinci and have another similar one to get correct exposure but never tried using a LUT on a monitor bc I just do not see how it could actually work...

 

arigato

 

Ok, so I'm not going to explain the entirety of the process but if you do want an in-depth explanation I recommend sending me a message or I can direct you to a few videos that would explain it better or better I could link you the P4T3NT for this exposure system.
It's simple in concept but complex to explain if you want to know how it works on a fundamental level, because the code is quite straightforward.

I have tried it on the MINI LF, AMIRRA, KOMODO, KOMODO X, PANASONIC S5, S5II, S5IIX. It 100% works, I will upload screenshots and perhaps clips to show it works if need be.

 

A quick still and clip of it working
https://imgur.com/a/rgse-z0n3-ymSLORQ
@Snook
remember this is a tool, in my honest opinion it's much superior to False Color and unpar with looking at a waveform with a proper range of stops, plus you are constantly aware of your TRUE DYNAMIC RANGE.
Will upload a chart to the original post for people that don't know how the values work.

 

Thanks, I know it is a tool and works well, I was asking about how it works as a LUT in a monitor.
I use a similar DCTL in Davinci but was wondering how it works with a monitor and the LUT. Can you share your LUT you made?
Thanks

 

I knew this was coming so I just updated the google drive and added stills to it.

You have your log image coming from your camera into the monitor, the lut is just a mathematical mapping of luminance and color for the values given by your camera so what the lut does is simply change what you are viewing based on the rules set by the lut.

For example I could make a lut/dctl that regardless of what you are shooting everything will always be GREY except anything that is clipping beyond your sensors dynamic range. So you'd only be able to see into the darkest shadows and the brightest highlights XD if that makes sense obviously that would not be ideal, but hopefully that makes sense.
I'm also not the best teacher, in my brain it all makes sense but then I can't explain it to people sorry if it didn't help.

 

Thanks, I see you put the LUT in the drive now

 

Yup, so everyone gets a functional powergrade, lut, dctl.

This is not workflow optimised but I will make another one that will be a simple compound node for those that are lazy and just want it to be DEAD-EASY to just toggle. Although it's pretty straight forward if you already know how to do parallel nodes and feed the info you want to whatever node of your choice.

 

Just tried your LUT in FCPX and will try in my camera monitor tomorrow, looks pretty cool!! Thank you.
I am wondering when use it in my monitor if I should have my LUT off or ON when exposing for Skin tones and they should be around green to slightly yellow I also imagine...
Thank you

 

OFF, ONLY USE IT ON LOG FOOTAGE.
REC709 has a "false latitude" unless you only shoot in r709 and grade from that then that's a different story and I think it should be fine

 

Trying to understand what you're going for here. Are you essentially trying to duplicate EL Zone (recent Atomos firmware updates include EL Zone to keep up with SmallHD, btw)?