Canon Custom Picture Styles
This is a guest post by contributor Patrick Zadrobilek (), a filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria, who likes to dig into the technical nitty-gritty details of his gear to get the best results possible. (nl) This test shows the different noise levels when ramping up ISO values on the most used Custom Picture Profiles (CPs) for the and C300. The Test The lens used was a Sigma 18-35mm f1.8 which has a beautyful neutral look. To achieve best possible quality the clips are recorded on an with DNxHD 220x (10 bit).
Canon Custom Picture Style Settings
Canon cameras come with six pre-loaded picture styles: Standard, Portrait, Landscape, Neutral, Faithful and Monochrome. Each is designed to suit a specific setting in order to produce the most accurate image. Cook Picture Styles was the result of more than one year of developing. To get the best possible dynamic range from Canon DSLR and also the best real world colors. Without flat look, without the need of post production grading, without hurt the textures in the image, without gradient banding.
Canon 550d Custom Picture Styles
While slowly rising ISO from 850 to 80.000, I closed the apperture to compensate exposure until f8, after wich I kicked in the ND 4x filter of the camera and then continued with f1.8. The point where f8 is reached is different on each CP because they all need different exposure levels. The most exposure latitude of course is in the c-log based CPs like the Cinema c-log (original Canon-Log), the CinemaEx (NTown’s video-levels-optimized version of c-log) and NTCLOGcFe (a color-matrix modified version based on c-log). The worst is WideDR which tries to compress a very wide dynamic range while keeping some contrast, but at the cost of image quality. The Conclusion For maximum viewing pleasure jump over to vimeo and download the movie in the original uploaded format. Noise levels are worst on the WideDR for the above mentioned reasons. The signal processing is on it’s limits and see not only brighness noise but very nasty color noise with this very special Picture Profile which I dont reccomend for shooting unless you absolutely no idea how to grade or color correct an image.