On: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 Joanna Plumbe wrote:- > .........I shoot a lot of heavily saturated contrasty lighting situations > for lighting and production companies. I did a direct comparison between > film and digital last week on a job, and the digital images were way > inferior to good old film. I find that wherever there's a lot of colour, > the dig image loses any definition of the way the light actually appears, > and takes on the appearance of a hefty unnatural 'splurge' of colour which > is usually much pinker than in reality (blue becomes pink/purple, as do most > other colours). I tried cutting the exposures right back to the point where > I couldn't see any of the surroundings, and the more heavily coloured area > became slightly more realistic, but still nowhere near as good as the film > results. I don't know the technical reasons behind this but obviously the > sensor reacts in a totally different way when bombarded with hefty amounts > of colour/contrast.
� You need to light-meter the set to see the actual range of lighting to set your mid-grey point. � Then make an accurate in camera white-balance to get the colours right. � There is nothing wrong with digital, its response to light is linear instead of curved like film. � Is the scene lit for shooting cine-neg stock or digital video? as they are two totally different animals. � The 1Ds is a very complex piece of kit without a manual. Read the manual. William Curwen http://www.william.ws =============================================================== GO TO http://www.prodig.org for ~ GUIDELINES ~ un/SUBSCRIBING ~ ITEMS for SALE
