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P6K to ARRI Alexa - Resolve PowerGrade


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Compared pictures look to me identical, maybe a touch bit more of DR on P6K2Alexa part because of higher black point, judging from leaves in background and clothes. Although it is obvious one, I'd like to mention idea and give a vote for making similar PowerGrade transform also for P4K.

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15 hours ago, Attila Bakos said:

Nice work, although 14000 data points sounds like overkill to verify a 3x3 matrix :)

Yeah you're correct, but I already had a library of those charts from various sensors and stocks, so it made sense to keep adding to it. Plus it's also actually quite helpful to have so many samples within the colour space, rather than just a few samples right at the edges.

15 hours ago, Sage said:

Nice work!

Thanks mate! Much appreciated.

 

Another interesting thing I found in testing is how much dynamic range the P6K actually has. According to the charts published by BMD and ARRI, when both cameras are exposed at ISO800, the Alexa has 1 stop extra range in the highlights, but approximately the same amount of stops in the shadows. In testing I found this to be pretty much spot on. I found I could expose one of the charts exactly one stop higher on the Alexa before it touched the clip point.

The interesting thing is how that actually translates in real world scenarios, and what that difference looks like.

Here are some crops of a scene shot on both cameras. In LogC, so the differences are visible. I matched exposure on the day using false colour, they're as close as I could get them. Probably less than 1/20th of a stop of difference in exposure.

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The left image is the P6K. When comparing it to the Alexa image in the middle, thats exactly what 1 stop difference in the highlights looks like in a real world situation.

It's interesting to see what happens to that 1 stop difference when highlight recovery is enabled – the P6K actually retains more highlight detail.

Obviously you would never actually place important image information in that range (not that you would ever do that with the Alexa either). But if you need it create a smoother roll-off in anything neutral in colour like specular highlights, clouds etc, it is possible to outperform the Alexa in highlight dynamic range... sometimes.

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11 minutes ago, Juan Melara said:

 

 

The left image is the P6K. When comparing it to the Alexa image in the middle, thats exactly what 1 stop difference in the highlights looks like in a real world situation.

It's interesting to see what happens to that 1 stop difference when highlight recovery is enabled – the P6K actually retains more highlight detail.

Obviously you would never actually place important image information in that range (not that you would ever do that with the Alexa either). But if you need it create a smoother roll-off in anything neutral in colour like specular highlights, clouds etc, it is possible to outperform the Alexa in highlight dynamic range... sometimes.

That info was blown on the Alexa? Was the Alexa shooting RAW tho?

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5 minutes ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

That info was blown on the Alexa? Was the Alexa shooting RAW tho?

Yeah that info was gone on the Alexa. The Alexa was shooting Prores 444, but there is no difference in dynamic range between Prores 444 and ARRIRAW. And there is no highlight recovery on ARRIRAW either, so there would be no chance of bringing it back.

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3 minutes ago, Juan Melara said:

Yeah that info was gone on the Alexa. The Alexa was shooting Prores 444, but there is no difference in dynamic range between Prores 444 and ARRIRAW. And there is no highlight recovery on ARRIRAW either, so there would be no chance of bringing it back.

That is crazy honestly. According to cinema 5d the Dynamic range on the Pocket 6k is 11.5 stops. With 1 stop in highlight recovery that is 12.5 stops. So the other 1.5 is in the shadows on the Alexa? Or does the Pocket 6k actually have like 12.5 stops of dynamic range even before highlight recovery?

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22 minutes ago, thebrothersthre3 said:

That is crazy honestly. According to cinema 5d the Dynamic range on the Pocket 6k is 11.5 stops. With 1 stop in highlight recovery that is 12.5 stops. So the other 1.5 is in the shadows on the Alexa? Or does the Pocket 6k actually have like 12.5 stops of dynamic range even before highlight recovery?

The Cinema 5D guys measured at ISO400. Rating and exposing at ISO800 shifts the mid point, allocating one stop extra to the highlights. It also lifts the shadows, revealing one more stop down the bottom.

That last stop will be slightly noisy. And thats what can make measuring DR tricky, as each tester will have a different tolerance to what is an acceptable level noise and whether the bottom stops actually count towards usable dynamic range. And if you're Red, just count everything and say it's 17+ stops.

Here is another image to show you the bottom stops of both cameras The previous example didn't have deep enough shadows to crop into. The exposure is matched on the day with false colour, this time I reckon they're identical. No noise reduction. Shot BRAW 5:1 / Prores 444 on the Alexa, which would be compressing out a bit of noise.

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Remember that the P6K has actually been cropped in to match the FOV of the Alexa, as I shot a 25mm on P6K and a 35mm on the Alexa. The crop is 1.32, so I'm actually only using a 4.6K portion of sensor. It would be less noise if I used the full sensor and scaled down. 

 

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23 hours ago, MoroZ said:

 

I purchased the p6k version for use with p4k. Is a discount possible?

I was going to send it to you for free, but then you wouldn't appear on the customer list, so you wouldn't get any free updates. Flick me an email and I'll get you a full refund or figure something out. You definitely want this version as the sensors are quite different.

23 hours ago, heart0less said:

Cool! 

Is there any chance for a X-T3 / X-T4 version, as well? 

I could make one. Just need to see what the demand is like and then would need to source the cameras.

23 hours ago, Geoff CB said:

You get damn close here, great job. The highlights in the Alexa just cannot be topped. 

Yeah there's a good stop and a half extra on the Alexa. Highlight recovery brings that down to maybe a stop difference.

I'm glad you didn't mention the Alexa's "highlight roll-off." The Alexa doesn't have a highlight roll-off! It's completely linear up there.

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50 minutes ago, Juan Melara said:

I could make one. Just need to see what the demand is like and then would need to source the cameras.

That's a great news.

I think the original X-T3 is highly underrated camera, but seeing how X-T4 is welcomed, it may no longer be the case in the upcoming months. Luckily, both of them, apart from sharing the same sensor, seem to have the same color science.

They don't offer RAW, unfortunately, but 10-bit @400Mbps is still plenty of data for color manipulation. 

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I am using P6KPowerGrade at bmpcc4k. is there a big difference if I use P4KPowergrade, or is the difference between them minimal? And one more question: how is it going with cutting off the red channel at P4KPowergrade?

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5 minutes ago, MoroZ said:

I am using P6KPowerGrade at bmpcc4k. is there a big difference if I use P4KPowergrade, or is the difference between them minimal? And one more question: how is it going with cutting off the red channel at P4KPowergrade?

The sensors are different enough that I wouldn't even think they are part of the same family. I actually wasn't expecting that.

It required a bit of work to even out the non linear quirks. As long as you process the footage at 0 tint, P4K2Alexa will sort out the red channel, well all channels actually.

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