AMP HDR Video Camera

[IABoomer]

Originally Posted by Izzy

I guess I dont get what you mean exactly. [insert echo here]

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mohandas Gandhi

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy

[Izzy]

Originally Posted by IABoomer

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.
Mohandas Gandhi

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Maya Angelou

Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
William Shakespeare

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
Thomas Jefferson

Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
Dalai Lama

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy

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[kcoppock]

Originally Posted by Izzy

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Business Strategies 4 Shooting Stills and HD Video Simultaneously during Photoshoot?

And there goes your afternoon.

[OsmosisStudios]

Originally Posted by kcoppock

Ah, there you are! We've been waiting.

Haha, it's a matter of opinion I guess, but tastefully done (which is admittedly rare) and in the right situation, HDR is a solution to a problem. There's no reason to have an overexposed sky if it's not necessary, and, while you could carry a GND filter, that's not the be all, end all solution, especially if there are protrusions into the sky (trees, buildings, etc.)

That said, I assume 90% of the examples you'll see once this thing hits the market are oversaturated, stylized crap.

HDR is a useful tool. It's not something to be used on EVERY SINGLE IMAGE, especially not in the garish ways they show in the video sample. Izzy does some amazing work with HDR: its a over the top for my taste, but it's an aesthetic and style and, from what I've heard, sells well. Not to me, but it sells.

Having a video camera that does that, even if it allows for custom tone-mapping, seems ridiculous to me. The examples they give are just ghastly, and if those are supposed to be something that entices me into buying... they need to hire a new marketing guy

[kcoppock]

Originally Posted by OsmosisStudios

HDR is a useful tool. It's not something to be used on EVERY SINGLE IMAGE, especially not in the garish ways they show in the video sample. Izzy does some amazing work with HDR: its a over the top for my taste, but it's an aesthetic and style and, from what I've heard, sells well. Not to me, but it sells.

Having a video camera that does that, even if it allows for custom tone-mapping, seems ridiculous to me. The examples they give are just ghastly, and if those are supposed to be something that entices me into buying... they need to hire a new marketing guy

I wholeheartedly agree, there are a lot of terribly overprocessed examples in the video. I still think having a camera with the capability is a good advantage, especially should you have the need to significantly lighten or darken a scene without severe artifacts. Since all the sensor data is retained, tonemapping wouldn't be required, and you could simply discard the other two channels if no HDR processing is necessary or helpful. I think in the second video, at positions 3:24, 4:07, and 4:25, those examples are what I consider to be tasteful HDR, and I think the video works quite well for those situations.

Also, sort of impractical at the current time -- according to the article, a 256 GB SSD is capable of storing only about 30 minutes worth of footage at 30fps!