CINEMATIC Exposure For S-Log3 (as a colorist) | Sony A7IV A7SIII FX3 FX30 

Glad it helped!

@@DannyGan Question pls. we must Adjust MM for different subject directly handy on body camera wheel or Adjust that with changing ISO ??

@@KooroshAcademyyou august it however you want, he’s just saying that MM is on the subject rather than the whole picture which is what most peoples advice is. This is solid advice as it will truly help you expose for your subject. In terms of how to get it ti +1.0, you can change the shutter, aperture or iso. ND filters help with this in bright lighting conditions.

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Thanks man, appreciate it!

Personnally artlist are jeuice so noo thank you

Much appreciated!

Thanks, will do!

Yess the subject is more important if you don’t have control of the environment

Glad to help man! Slog3 will definitely give you plenty of creative leverage on the colour grade 🔥

Use zebras

I appreciate that!

Glad it helped!

I feel that it would actualy be easier, you don’t need to switch on anything. Just aim for an optimum exposure if you’re flinging the camera around.

are you goona color grade in post? Then slog3cine. It should be the pp8 color profile!

If I wasn’t sure I wouldn’t have made this video

I don't. So my guess is as good as yours I'm afraid

Pick a subject, expose for that. Or find the average exposure if you're walking around. It takes practice to identify it.

Envato I believe 😗

Not sure which LUT you are referring to, but the Gamma Assist is close to any offical rec.709 colour space transform/technical LUT

Usually what i do is switch to a "average" exposure for the ambiance/scene. Then just correct it in post if needed, you have quite some room to adjust exposure in post. If you're going through a tunnel of some sorts, just expose for the brighter part, or the darker, depending on what you wanna prioritise. It's impossible to expose 100% 'correctly' for every situation. Hope this helps!

@@DannyGan thanks mate. That helps! Keep up your good work! Best wishes!

I would...if i have those cameras 😅

Based on the multi-meter

In editing or when shooting?

@@DannyGanWhen shooting.🤔

Cine EI only previews the ISO brightness but records in base ISO. You will have to manually adjust the brightness offset in post. I do not prefer this setting, but if you're not sure of how to expose, Cine EI is an option to maintain low noise from the camera...but not in the final grade. Sorry but I'm not too familiar with Catylist Browse.

I beg ti differ. Exposing for the highlights will sacrifice details in the shadows, but whatever works!

@@DannyGan Sure. For high contrast scenes. but you can make the conscious decision to let certain parts of the image blow out for example. I never had a problem with shadow detail to be honest. I set my zebras to 90-92 and just make sure i don’t see any visible in the image and it has always served me well.

Then that's a little tricky, you'll have to trust other more "professional" tools like the histogram or false color since that camera is aimed to more professional users.

Yeah sure, ND is your friend when it comes to filming under bright conditions. Just get good ones like Nisi True Color so that you won't get artifacts

@@DannyGan thanks, man! You‘re a specialist i see. But one question remains for me: for example the FX30 Cine EI has ISO 800 and 2500 . If i need More ISO in really lowlight situation: which ISO DOES work? Some pros das, 10.000 is bad and 12.600 is higher but less nois than ISO 10.00? Is there a rule i can work with?

Yes, just not about the monitor. It has a lower quality monitor.

If you expose darker scenarios to +1.7, you'll be blowing out your highlights or introducing lots of noise. Dark sudjects should look naturally dark, hope that makes sense 😅

Thought that too but I think I got it now. The image brightness is staying the same if you usw the spot metering technique. If you got a black and a white object as a subject and you put the spot meter on that white one the metering is saying 2.0 and if you put it on that black element it should say something about -0.7 than you are fine, if the numbers are off you readjust it.

+2.0 blinking

S-Gamut3.cine, details -7 and everything else at deafult.

@@DannyGan Thanks a lot Danny. New Follower!

not that it is necessary per se, but it's the base ISO for S-Log3. So it will give you the lowest image noise.

Sorry, I'm not sure what your question is 😅 what would you like to change it to?

@@DannyGan The circle following foucs as you mentionned in your video, is it possible to attribute to another button?

A white subject will naturally overexpose itself. If you underexpose a white subject, the surrounding might be too underexposed to recover. So my technique takes the surroundings into consideration and slightly overexpose the white subject so that you'll get a balanced exposure.

If using the camera exposure meter, as an exaggerated example, and you meter a snowman in a field of snow, the camera meter will be underexpose to about 18% grey. Conversely, if you meter for a black cat against a black background, it will be overexposed as the meter will 18% grey as a reference. A typical average scene will be about 18% grey, so the camera will be exposed more or less correctly. So if you spot meter a dark skinned person, the exposure will be a little too bright as the camera uses 18% grey as it’s reference, so you have to override the camera settings to bring the exposure down a bit (ie close down aperture). It does seem a little counterintuitive hey? Does that make sense? The camera uses the reflective light metering. Personally, I use a seperate hand held light meter to measure the light falling on the subject, this is called incidence light metering. Anyway, big subject.😅

Each to their own

Sorryy but I don't use it at all

@@DannyGan thank you

The aim for exposure is not to completely avoid noise/grain, but to shoot a decent exposure. If you're only thinking about noise/grain then you're going about it the wrong way. Plus, there's always noise reduction in post if you need it.

I don't have an tested answer, but if I were to make an educated guess, around +0.3 to +0.7

S-log3, whichever PP doesn’t matter according to sources by Sony

I don’t blame you, try watching at x0.5 speed

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