Noisy blacks

[Matthew Scott]

That was the best RAW lesson I've had, period. Cheers Matt & Brook :)

[Randall Brown]

Yea. That's the way I like to do it. I rate and light for 320. Results are clean and low noise.

So should I be looking at the RAW feed from the monitor or a modified LUT version?

[Matt Ryan]

If you reset everything in RedcineX Pro to Default (Redcolor2, Redgamma2, ASA 800) this is what your histogram looks like:


Everything is basically bunched up on the low end with the exception of the clipped microphone. Theres not really any separation between your highs and your lows.

[Brook Willard]

Yea. That's the way I like to do it. I rate and light for 320. Results are clean and low noise.

I would recommend against this STRONGLY. Rate and light to 800 ASA. Just don't rate and light to 2500 ASA, as was the case here.

Rating the camera at 320 ASA will cause you to overexpose by 1 1/3 stops, costing you dynamic range in your highlights.

[Matthew Scott]

Is it fair to say that if you light and expose properly at 800 ISO on the MX sensor, you can achieve virtually noiseless results?

[Rob Ruffo]

Is it fair to say that if you light and expose properly at 800 ISO on the MX sensor, you can achieve virtually noiseless results?

Yes. Even at 1600 (without any other pushing). also, the texture of the noise is not nearly as bad as noise on many other cameras, so when it appears, it's not the end of the world.

[Matt Ryan]

Is it fair to say that if you light and expose properly at 800 ISO on the MX sensor, you can achieve virtually noiseless results?

Yes, just make sure to throw as much light at it as possible. You can always bring levels down, but you can't bring up something that was underexposed to begin with without introducing noise.

[Matthew Scott]

Yeah sweet, I'm not totally afraid of noise, especially pretty noise (mx noise)...thanks for the info :)

[Chris McKechnie]

Thanks for the tips guys. Gosh I love this forum.

[Chris McKechnie]

I would recommend against this STRONGLY. Rate and light to 800 ASA. Just don't rate and light to 2500 ASA, as was the case here.

Rating the camera at 320 ASA will cause you to overexpose by 1 1/3 stops, costing you dynamic range in your highlights.

Brook:

When viewing the monitor in RAW mode, is it showing 800 ASA since that's the native of the sensor?