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I've developed a more sophisticated "false sharpness" powergrade, but it was super tricky to get it to be sensitive enough to tell the difference between soft and sharp lenses (when no sharpening has been applied). Here are some test shots of a resolution test pattern through two lenses - the Master Anamorphics which are gloriously sharp, and the Hawk Vintage '74 lenses which are modern versions of a vintage anamorphic. ARRI ungraded with the false colour power-grade: Note that I've added a sine-wave along the very bottom that gets smaller towards the right, and acts as a scale to show what the false sharpness grade does. Here's the Hawk: and the Zeiss one with a couple of blur nodes to try and match the Hawk: Here's the same three again but without the false sharpness powergrade. Zeiss ungraded: Hawk ungraded: Zeiss graded to match the Hawk (I also added some lens distortion too): Interestingly, I had to add two different sized blurs at different opacities - a single one was either wrong with the fine detail or wrong on the larger details. The combination of two blurs was better, but still not great. I was wondering if a single blur would replicate the right shape for how various optical systems attenuate detail, and it seems that it doesn't. This is why I was sort of wanting a more sophisticated analysis tool, but I haven't found one yet, and TBH this is probably a whole world unto itself, and also, it's probably too detailed to matter if I'm just trying to cure the chronic digitalis of the iPhone and other digital cameras. ....and just for fun, here's the same iPhone shot from previously with the power-grade: If I apply the same blurs that I used to match the Zeiss to the Hawk, I get these: It's far too "dreamy" a look for my own work, but the Hawk lenses are pretty soft and diffused:

Stop giving the world our secrets huh?! But that’s kind of the sum of it actually…

Clearly. There is a special handshake and everything and a solemn promise that what happens on YouTube, stays on YouTube. They give it all up to get their $2 ad revenue return… Just 10 years ago, the common folks paid these rawk stars a small fortune to go on one of their secret revealing workshops. They have since mostly become charities for the short remaining time they have in the industry.

Learning to not give a damn... LOL Nice pick! @kye ;- )

Nice results Does anyone know what the right combination of settings are in Resolve to get Dolby Vision HDR 4K footage from the older iPhones from 12 through 14 to display as HLG in Resolve without the Dolby Vision metadata, or tone mapping applied? Just want to grade the HGL like S-LOG. Everything I've tried so far doesn't work, including setting custom colour spaces in Resolve set to Rec 2100 and Hybrid Log Gamma.

Another one to match the above with a slightly better matching scene (still not hard light though - the pollution in India is no joke!). Ref: iPhone grade: iPhone (ungraded): Ok, I'll shut up now.

Another one, this time a shot from one of the Jason Bourne films, I think this was the second one, which was shot on Kodak Vision 3 and printed on Kodak 2383. Reference image: iPhone grade: iPhone (ungraded): I'm not so happy with that one, but the subject matter was a lot more different, with the reference shot being in full sun and the iPhone image being overcast and also containing a lot of different hues. The road in the reference image is asphalt and is slightly blue in the image, whereas the "road" in the iPhone shot is actually tram tracks and concrete, not asphalt. Still, there was something in the green/magenta/yellow hues that I couldn't quite nail. Oh well. That's those HDR images from the iPhone - you have no creative control over them. If only Apple had given me a slider for saturation, sharpening, and other controls, those would have matched the look of S35mm film and Cooke lenses perfectly 😉

A bit more playing around with what is possible from my HDR iPhone 12 images... Reference image from the move Ava (2020): iPhone grade: iPhone (ungraded): It's not perfect, but without having them next to each other it's not terrible. I couldn't find what camera Ava was shot on, but I did find that it was shot with Panavision anamorphics. No doubt that is a contributing factor to why my iPhone shot doesn't match the exact look of the movie lol.

Here are a set of four shots from my iPhone 12 Mini that I have graded very quickly in a few different ways to give a sense of what is possible, and what "film looks" might be able to be created. The first row has no grading applied, the second has my standard default iPhone input transform, the rest are more creative grades, just pushing it around to create various looks. All these shots were shot on full-auto with the default iPhone app. Every shot on the same row has the same grade, including exposure and WB and everything, despite being shot on three different continents. All these use only effects that are available in Resolve - no third-party plugins or LUTs or other YT influencer bullshit. You tell me - do I look like I am currently experiencing a complete lack of creative control over my images?

DNG files from Android RAM footage can be imported directly in Resolve. They also can be labeled in a way that Resolve see them as DNG files coming from a blackmagic camera. You have access to all the settings, like change ISO in post and even Highlight Recovery ! I'll share my workflow with some sample clips in a few days. It is easy if you have the knowledge. Funny enough but to shoot in 4K ProRes 60p on new iPhone 15 pro Apple forces you to use external storage, while with Android RAW you can get 4K at 60p internally on the latest generation flagships without any problem. External recording to SSD is available to Android RAW too. With Xioami 13 Ultra or Vivo x90 Pro Plus 1Tb internal storage at 1000-1100 E, you may never need external one. Going back to IPhone 15 Pro, here is one good example that shows that aggressive noise reduction in high ISOs is also gone with new iPhone 15. Flares are still present but much less than in 14 Pro where they are simply ruining the image. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHT2TEwJJz4 This guy claims that with Blackmagic application you can have Apple Log with HEVC (265) codec. Check the Apple Log part. Hm interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOZUfWcGCxk