iI start getting more and more enthusiastic about cinematography lately. I've watched some video about Arri Alexa and Red cameras. The features mostly drew my attention was the HDRX on the RED Epic 5K camera. As a stills photographer I am aware of the overexposer and underexposer in my images. Some photographers even bracket in order to later unite those shots into one HDR image. This technique is available for videos with the Red Epic camera, and it's called HDRX.
I just wish that Canon or Nikon will have this on one of their DSLR cameras, for video of course. It's amazing what you can get by utilizing this feature on the Red Epic. Take a look and tell me what do you think?
Most of the high-end camcorders for cinematographers like the Arri Alexa, have a very high sensitivity and can really maintain a lot of details even in very bright or very dark scene. The dynamic range is so high that you can achieve amazing detailed shot in various exposures which aren't possible with other cameras. The HDRX takes this one step forwards and allow cinematographers to shoot scenes that look better than anything I personally seen before.
Here, take a look at another video shot by Vincent from vincentlaforet.com (I follow him on twitter now, great stuff on his blog).
Here some people try to make the same effect using two Canon 5D Mark II cameras and use a variety of HDR processing tools to achieve that effect that you see in this video, take a look..
Some photographers use "pseudo HDR" which they actualyl overexpose and underexpose the same footage and merge it together in video editing software. The results are far from being satisfactory. When it is shot with a DSLR you don't get to edit a Raw video but a processed one. Some people refer to HDR as "reality" because that's how our eyes sees the world. Not in an exaggerated HDR processing, but a very high dynamic range image that maintain a well balance lighted image.
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