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2014/07/17

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off to bed now ... have a good one everyone!
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se6astian
good day!
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Bertl
morning folks!
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danieel
interesting price on the pocket bm camera...
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Bertl
danieel: how so?
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danieel
dropped to half till end of sept
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danieel
end of august
13:27
Bertl
so price dumping again, I presume
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Bertl
I'm curious what message this sends to customers in general
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Bertl
for exisiting: look, we charged you twice the amount for the same camera a few months ago :)
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Bertl
for new ones: hey, we can't sell the product, so we half the price now :)
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Bertl
or maybe it is a completely different message
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danieel
they maybe do something better (gs, hfr) and those stocked units wont be sellable
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danieel
but i assume there wont be any big announcement at ibc
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se6astian
night night
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troy_s
Egads.
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troy_s
When did the Black Magick camera drop to 500$?
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troy_s
Erf.
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danieel
few days back
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danieel
july 16th is the news announcement
22:10
troy_s
Crazy.
22:10
danieel
what do you think of it ?
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troy_s
I'm not a fan of the cameras due to the smaller sensor and the lack of offspeed, but at 500$ it's damn tempting.
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troy_s
My axes of evaluation for this camera are:
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troy_s
1) Latitude and format (both a win - raw Bayer and latitude are pretty decent)
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troy_s
2) Sensor size (a loss here)
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troy_s
3) Off speed (a loss here)
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troy_s
But when I look at all three and then compare price... it makes for an actual decision.
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danieel
resolution is poor.. (fhd@bayer)... even the F3 got enough cells to produce fhd 4:4:4
22:12
troy_s
(at 1000$ it is ridiculuous)
22:12
troy_s
?
22:12
troy_s
What's the price on the F3?
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troy_s
(Haven't seen it. Is it a Sony?)
22:12
danieel
not comparable, as for the rest of the features
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danieel
i think that there is no other camera which relies on pure fhd bayer sensor today..
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troy_s
danieel: It's a pretty damn good camera at that price
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troy_s
for what it is. The balance is pretty damn reasonable.
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troy_s
The photosites still resolve to the lens which is always going to be an issue for CMOS.
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danieel
what issue?
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troy_s
Well the lens is going to resolve down across a smudge of G/B/R sites
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troy_s
and we will always be facing the reality of missing data
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troy_s
(Unless we go to a CCD or such)
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troy_s
make sense?
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danieel
does not. the ccd is same bayer pattern as cmos
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troy_s
Some CCDs I thought were stacked
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troy_s
But perhaps I am mistaken
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danieel
for stills only (foveon)
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troy_s
I know there were a few sensors out there based on that model
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troy_s
Ah well, you get my point.
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troy_s
(hopefully)
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danieel
they recently went on to loose some of that stacking to increase luma resolution, colors get subsampled
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danieel
the stacked ones can not yet be used for video.. so that is not a point
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troy_s
Interesting. Those sorts of sensors would introduce a film-like crosstalk.
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danieel
crosstalk is just a shifted color space, can be restored or enforced by the 3x3 matrix..
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danieel
i do not like the bmpcc's rolling shutter... even that latitude is great, the yello efect ruins practical use
22:25
troy_s
danieel: Not really
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troy_s
(agree on shutter)
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troy_s
But crosstalk is a very real concern in VFX land
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danieel
explain more in depth, that intersts me
22:26
troy_s
hence why keyers almost always want to be operating on the raw camera "space" (not that a camera really has a space per se)
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troy_s
Well a non-crosstalked set of data has some nuances to it that are smudged apparently when you take it into a different transform.
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danieel
isnt it confused then with a color subsampling? (usually you get 422 out of cameras)
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troy_s
(for example, you and I might be able to pull a key using the edge information strictly from a luminance pass across the raw bayer)
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danieel
that is unusual
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troy_s
It makes sense though
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troy_s
The lowest to the steel data you get of the lens resolving to some data
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troy_s
is in that raw bayered image
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danieel
(recently saw some pro bw photographer who pulls bw shots from raw stills)
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danieel
ah
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troy_s
And as soon as you debayer you are 'smudging' that
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danieel
i get it where the issue comes from
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troy_s
the difference between what is captured (critical for keying) and what color it represents is blurred
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troy_s
(literally I suppose :) ()
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danieel
when you apply 3x3 matrix / arbitrary "crosstalk", then you are corrupting the physical position of pixels
22:28
troy_s
Bingo
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danieel
as the input elements are sampled at different pos
22:28
troy_s
Exactly.
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troy_s
So your citing goes to shit
22:28
danieel
good, finally what we agree both on :)
22:28
troy_s
(I thought we agreed often. Communication sucks.)
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troy_s
(Little did I know)
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danieel
:)
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troy_s
(Citing is actually a huge issue in subsampling anyways)
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danieel
both have our set of truth
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danieel
citing?
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troy_s
(IIRC Greg's work on "Toward Better Subsampling" covered that a bit)
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troy_s
Citing
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danieel
whats that?
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troy_s
where the given sample lay in spatial sense
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troy_s
If you think of a standard lerp
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troy_s
the interpolated value rests precisely at 0.5 distance
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danieel
lot of new words today.. lerp?
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troy_s
LERP == Linear Interpolation
22:30
troy_s
Hrm. How to describe.
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troy_s
Think of it this way
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troy_s
Think of three pixels
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troy_s
expressed as a bar graph
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troy_s
looking at the side
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troy_s
when we draw a line from the middle of the first bar graph to the third
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troy_s
the line precisely crosses the middle of the middle bar graph at the midway point
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troy_s
A cubic scale
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troy_s
will create a curve that doesn't quite end up precisely at that mid point - the citing is off.
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troy_s
(As for tents, box, Lanczos, Sincs etc.)
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danieel
so this is upsampling of the subsampled color channels, where they do not match? got a little lost
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troy_s
Yes
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troy_s
upsampling and how that RGB set is generated
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danieel
and that error multiplies by consecutive color transformations
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troy_s
http://www.glennchan.info/articles/technical/chroma/chroma1.htm
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troy_s
Exactly.
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troy_s
Glen's work has pictures!
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troy_s
It's great to look at as some issues that are obvious become clear, despite rarely entering one's world view.
22:33
danieel
(that is why i preferred to keep my stuff in DNG... it keeps bayer, unless other formats)
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troy_s
Sure.
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troy_s
But at some point you have to futz with crap in RGB
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troy_s
or a tri-color world
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danieel
btw how would you deal with moare? strong sw - adaptive processing, or just proper OLPF?
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troy_s
God that's a huge question.
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troy_s
I know that the typical method goes as follows that I have seen:
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troy_s
1) Filters on lens. Smudge it. Likely not preferred by some.
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danieel
have noticed that f5 or f55 has a set of olpf for different uses
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troy_s
2) Change the goddamn thing.
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troy_s
(as in if it is wardrobe, change it.)
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troy_s
that's the reality I have seen
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troy_s
Yes. There's filters.
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