…in film and video, finishing a car is 95% prep work- that door trim- using spray adhesive.

This is a cider that went all ex-wife on you. Damn.

Gear:
Canon T2i – with Light Illusions Gamma Curves corrector picture profile
Zeiss 50mm
Adobe Premiere Pro
Cineform First Light
Free Music Archive

…and they’re almost all full!!

• Si-2K/Cineform workflow was really easy. The network connection freaked a couple times to the Cinedeck so the clip didn’t close out properly, but SI has a utility to fix that so no issues
• You need a really good lens for the SI. Nobody’d really tried what I was doing so there was no information on the EF mount for it. I took a risk and it didn’t work out so in a pinch I used primarily the Sigma 10-20…it was all I could get my hands on. It wasn’t good…obviously.
• The Ziess 50mm is really soft. I ran it F/1.8 but it didn’t sharpen up until around 2.2 or so. Back focus issue? I don’t know anything about that. The images weren’t as sharp as I wanted.
• The SI/Cinedeck Extreme color was dead on accurate to reality.
• The T2i color, even with the profile set way down was harsh, forced and well, colored improperly.
• 10 bit is the way to go. I don’t care how awesome your 8 bit camera is; 8 bit sucks balls in post. Not to mention you have banding and absolutely no gradients (comparatively speaking). Budget might keep you at 8 bit though and that’s understandable.
• I’m really bummed I don’t own the SI2K/Cinedeck combo. Financially it doesn’t make sense right now although I’d use it for absolutely everything.

…and speaking of color. Here’s a selection of before/afters on the first Cairo short:

This guy is amazing. Link forthcoming