View Full Version : The problem of cinegamma


Miguel Lopez
April 8th, 2003, 12:30 PM
The problem of cinegamma is that when something is about to overexpose it does it very fast so the image is useless.

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Stephen van Vuuren
April 8th, 2003, 02:22 PM
That's by design, not a problem. See this link for more details:

http://www.adamwilt.com/24p/index.html#GammaSettings

Jason Rodriguez
April 8th, 2003, 03:12 PM
Actually, the problem is really easy to solve in post. Simply apply a curves filter to the footage, and make a nice knee from the highlights into the midrange-it helps a lot and basically solves the hard clips in the highlights problem. If you can't do any color correction in post though, and you're having problems with the highlights, then it's probably better to just shoot with one of the other three gamma modes. Hope this helps.

Jason

Miguel Lopez
April 8th, 2003, 03:22 PM
Could you draw me the curve?
thanks

Scott Osborne
April 10th, 2003, 08:51 PM
Try this like there is a great screen shot of the curve
http://www.dvinfo.net/articles/filmlook/broadway2.php

Scott
Infinite Reality Productions