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MatRich
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Apr 28 2012
7:39:43PM

Am I the only one who doesnt believe in cinestyle?

I had ran a few tests a while ago and was happy with the lowlight gain I got from it but rarely ever used it because it looks like pure shit until you color correct it to look exactly like you would have had it with loss in the shadows.

Everyone is raving about it so I just figured Im being lazy and not correcting it properly or something.

fast forward, now I read up on it more, decide to start playing with the LUT. basicaly it does the same thing as before, same loss of new information but now it happens automatically.

I ran tests shooting cinestyle in
their prefered settings,
prefered/+1 saturation (keep color info)
Standard

From having played with the footage with corretion, LUT and analysing all of my scopes I was realy unimpressed and my image was actualy worse. At the same sharpness settings, my image using cinestyle becomes noticably softer than at standard/same sharpness. Even after sharpening!

on the theory side of things, what makes me hesitate about the picture style is that even if you gain more dynamic range, at 8bits color space on a 7D, there is not much you can do to correct your footage without banding your footage.

So why dont I get it? why is everyone going through more editing time to shoot superflat when they realy dont increase dynamic range, or get anything out of it since, once edited to look acceptable, it gives me the same tonal detail as if I shot it standard.

Is there something Im missing here? im trying to understand what everything loves about this.

thanks erbody.