The downside of accurate color and the ability to distinguish subtle color variations.
There really is no reason to have this conversation, but for the record I didn't paint c-1 or phase with a broad brush.
I made it clear about what I shot and what the results were. I didn't mention shooting trees and landscapes cause that's not what I shoot.
Do I like the images yes, do they have great detail, yes, did C-1 crash and freeze, yes, did it require a complete restart, yes. It could be the firewire cords were glitchy, I have one trusty set I use all the time, but switched to the other two backups and kept working.
Again, for the record one of our assistants works part time at a large digital department in NY that rents Phase exclusively, (most of the time on H series blads) and she says she hears of V5 crashing. Maybe she's also doing it wrong, maybe the cameras have issues, I don't know.
Now one thing I've learned is don't shoot too many p30+ files to one folder, it seems to slow the system down, at least on a powerbook. I personally will keep it around 100 to 200. I think we shoot over 200 when the issues happened the most.
As far as the color response of the p30+ (or the software) if it was possible I would post an image, but it's not released yet and it will be a few days until we go through selection and post production, but shooting on a pink toned background, everything picks up that color, garments, hair, skin.
In C-1 I can make it pretty, but not accurate, in other words a yellow garment is pink toned or the color controls are so global in their process, that to get the garment close to correct the background goes yellow warm. It's very difficult to be specific, at least in my use. The only way to get there is to process out a few images with different colors and go into photoshop and blend them.
We do this anyway in post so it's not the end of the world, though something as simple as those little color squares in lightroom that you can adjust different colors in saturation, hue and luminance would be helpful. Especially in the early viewing stage of web galleries, because it's not a lot of fun to tell a client, yes the bra will be yellow, the background will be pink, you'll just have to wait until we go to final.
Now for the record I find C-1 to make more pleasing processing of Canon files than any adobe product, but for p30+ files I find cs4 extended or lightroom more moveable.
As far as speed, are we gonna race? Race for for what, a software license? I'm not racing, I'm just giving a paying user's experience.
Other people feel different, other people use different cameras.
But if your going to bullet point everything, then make mention of the phase lcd, cause that's a fright for AD's, on set artists and the talent and that's something that really should be addressed, even when you tether, because when your shooting there is always someone standing behind you.
At this stage everyone is use to seeing a pristine lcd image, whether it be on their iphone, TV, tech station, or their kids point and shoot, so to keep people from gasping, I just taped over it.
But also for the record, I really didn't use the Contax because of the digital back, I used the digital back because I wanted to use the Contax and the only reason on this project that any Canon came out of the case was to shoot motion in conjunction with the stills and the only reason we shot stills with the Canon was if I saw some look I liked we repeated it and shot a few still frames. The by product was the 5d2 files hold up really well and I think in ways are sharper than than the 1ds3.
All IMO.
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