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Hey Raafi, as soon as you get it you have to do one of those cool “box opening” sequences!

The 5U will be available from Kinefinity to Western buyers starting May 2020. And the 7H has been on the market since October last year so not sure there’s a “steady” second hand market yet for these commodities. Cheers!

Sorry for the late reply. Corona has Asia in a rush! Yes, according to my “crude” tests you may get optimum “mid-point” DR with ISO 640 @4.3 HLS which is kind of weird as supposedly the Native ISO for the T4K is 800/3200. Again, I do not own the proper equipment for this and all I can say is that I “eyeballed” the results based on performance and…[Read more]

It’s up and running again…

Hi Gianfranco! Raafi is the King of Leica-R lenses so please wait for his final advice. In the meantime you can look and research the following if you own a Mavo S35:

1- KineEnhancer EF mount

2- https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/995128-REG/fotodiox_lr_eos_p_pro_canon_eos_camera.html

That said, please make sure as some Leica-R have…[Read more]

Interesting! Well, now we also know how to mitigate the banding, just export HEVC 10-Bits 😉

Damn it really? I will feel so stupid if this is really the “issue”… 🙁 I have spent so much time on this and all I got is a lousy hypothesis… seems like it is the compression… I didn’t do anything to your clip other than add a serial node. Second node added the Neutral KineM. first node adjusted mild colour temp and highlight to taste,…[Read more]

Cool! In the meantime can you check this one? Please let me know if you can still see banding in this clip (your original seminar clip): https://www.dropbox.com/s/t8v2renmrp0p4bh/steven_hevc.mov?dl=0

Actually Steven, there is a favor you can help with as my Mac is very old and cannot handle 6K files in Resolve. If you have the time here is the test I would like to see. Try to replicate the issue in cDNG instead of ProRes, once you get a wall surface where you feel pretty confident you can duplicate the issue then switch to cDNG without…[Read more]

…forgot to mention in response to your earlier comment, we know that this is not FPN as I mentioned before. It is banding, in fact it looks like gradation banding on single color surfaces due to compression. No idea if you still have your T4K or if you traded for MLF, but if you can get your hands on a MLF I can tell you exactly how to duplicate…[Read more]

Adam, this is nothing the new firmware will do something about. As I said in previous post I updated to the latest as I was on 6202 and that didn’t do anything for banding. From my perspective I don’t see it as a deal breaker but I am not a film maker. The issue is when you apply Neutral Kine LUT and export in a format let’s say H.264 the banding…[Read more]

Hi Martin, welcome to the forum. I mentioned the low ISO and HS to Steven previously but after testing that myself now it is clear is bears no influence on the banding issue. I have to agree with you that, although the banding is less visible in 6K, it is still noticeable unfortunately. I wouldn’t worry too much as my experience with KineTeam they…[Read more]

Morning Steven! Are you completely sure you still saw banding in 6K? I just re-did my test and when switching between 3K oversampling and 6K I can see banding in oversampled 3K but none in 6K. Was also able to see banding in 4K as well but less noticeable. My guess this banding may be the result of their oversampling code, maybe the way it deals…[Read more]

Was able to duplicate the issue… No idea what it is, just know that after Kine Neutral LUT and some minor tweaks in Davinci the impact gets minimized. Also noticed that in FF if you go to 6K (no down sampling) it is almost unnoticeable. Also noticed that if you ETTL the banding goes away completely, maybe Mavo LF can’t handle ETTR at all? Just…[Read more]

Just downloaded your clip…. this is insane!!! Even your BMP snap is plagued with that banding. I’m not sure your article is related, banding and FPN are not the same issue. Also, not sure why you decided to decrease your HS whilst shooting at such low ISO for that indoors shot. Not that it matters. I’ll try tomorrow to replicate your settings…[Read more]

never seen this banding in footage… I’ve seen it on the Monitor but that’s expected… Instead of screenshots, do you have a 3 seconds ungraded clip direct for the cam? No processing and no grading? Also if possible the whole folder with .mt and the slate file…

this one:

https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-SDSSDXPS-480G-G25-Revision-Storage/dp/B00KHRYRLY