A pretty easy and straightforward "fix" would be nailing exposure. Just like every other shoot on every other day. No diffuse part of a scene should ever even approach clipping on a modern camera. And I'm not limiting this to high end cinema cameras, even if I might not include the lowest end.
There is so much headroom in today's cameras and the codecs are so rich that it takes a proper effort to fail. Not that some aren't trying.
Overexposing cameras by 5 stops or whatever, only to make them clip and then comparing the images is 100% internet, armchair warrior territory. It's one thing to make these technical tests to gather information—this is useful and it makes sense. It's another thing to blow out a face by 5 stops and then make a discussion about "recovery" as if it's actionable intel. As mentioned, the solution starts way earlier in the image acquisition chain.
Somewhere around 4 stops over, at the latest, it's all just specular or direct light information. And even then, higher end cameras have no problem containing moderate direct light sources such as candles or lamp shades.
Surely, there are lots of interesting discussions to be had around professionally shot footage?
Originally Posted by rand thompson
