Recent content by Houpla

I recently shot some footage at +1 sharpness and found that as long as the Magic was moving it looked good but once the image stopped and there was no more motion blur the sharpness kicked in and changed to look of the footage dramatically. If you are doing the typical flying shots at some...

I just printed a Mavic Pro photo from a RAW image at 11x14 and it came out spectacularly. I did, however, process it in photoshop and used an icc profile from my printing company which made all the difference. I agree that someone should program an app that shoots multiple images for sticking...

2.7K 000 D Cinelike ISO 400 by Houpla posted May 26, 2017 at 1:05 PM1080 000 D Cinelike ISO 400 by Houpla posted May 26, 2017 at 1:05 PM I am posting two shots from my test. Same settings, one shot at 1080 and the other 2.7k downsized to 1080. Note the better sharpness in the text on the...

I can't tell a thing with all the YouTube compression.

I personally find it much easier to add sharpness in post rather than try to fix anti aliasing, moire and noise. Much of this depends on how far you are from your subject. I can see a +1 sharpness in a situation where the scene does not naturally have much definition. I recently shot a scene...

24fps is more prone to "strobing" especially if the shutter is more than 48. Motion can also be blurred as the slow shutter cannot stop the action. 24 is great for slow action. 30fps is normally better as it is the standard video frame rate/ 24fps is often converted to 30 intoducing 6...

It is a lens flare, not a projectile.

After extensive reading of posts claiming that you must set sharpness at +1 and others that it should be -1 to reduce noise etc I finally shot some tests in my studio with a color chart and a focus chart. I did not run all variations possible but limited my shots to 1080 and 2.7k as I output to...