And some might look good upon first inspection with their flat appearance. I wouldn't recommend buying any of the home grown 'Canon Log' profiles out there, because most of them just rob the codec of useful code values in an attempt to wrangle the shadows and highlights into submission. What we DO seem to agree on, is the amount of faith we put in other people's 'attempts' to create something useful.

You can also choose to spend the time and develop something more custom to your own needs-like to JCS here on the forum.

My guess is that those settings are simply part of the pipeline and you need to set them to the setting that corresponds to how the picture profile was developed.ĬineStyle is certainly no unicorn, but it's a valid option. Ironically, even WITH CineStyle you need to set the contrast and saturation sliders according to their recommendation. Even if you reduce Contrast to -4 with the normal profiles, you don't get a 'flat' curve. This is something that NO ONE else can do. This allowed Technicolor to bypass Canon's own base curves like Natural, Portrait, Landscape, Standard and Faithful. It's simply a specific way to distribute a number of stops of light in a more sensible fashion.ĬineStyle from Technicolor is the ONLY curve that was developed with, or at least sanctioned by Canon. To record a linear signal with a logarithmic transfer function you don't need any special hardware, or preparations. Hardware needs to be optimized to provide real LOG and to affect dynamic range.To this I say: no and no.Īs per Technicolor's own CineStyle notes, the sensor data is treated with a log curve based on Cineon. Cinestyle is a pseudo log curve which provides less contrast and desaturation.

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