Hello and welcome. If you are here you most likely know that I like to post footage and tests on the internet. Over the years in my deep research, I have found it sometimes hard to actually see, for example, what a lens or a camera really looks like via a YouTube video. Partially due to compression, partially due to things moving fast, and sometimes due to suboptimal creative grades. So...
HI-REZ PART 1
I shall pair posts here with YouTube videos, share uncompressed frames from the footage I show in the video, graded, and ungraded, as well as other elements that can be important to have not hidden 8 minutes into a youtube video. This way, you can download, or view here, when something is posted to youtube that you want to take a closer look at, and finally see what stuff really looks like. Real pixel peepin.
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Walking around NYC with an alexa isn't easy, but there is a more of this city, and the world, that I want to share, in high resolution, at max quality. Recently I started looking at stills cameras. I dove into the Hasselblad X2D (in more ways than one 😈) and when watching youtube videos about it, I could only see the photos via, at max, a 4k compressed video. I wanted to see more. I looked for sample images, and even raw images. Found a few, but not enough. Same for when I was looking for footage from different cameras. Not enough. So now I will change that. Only max res here. Like this:
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I am still working on image hosting, but currently if you click an image here, it will open in a new page, in hi-rez glory. Click again to really get in there. Feel free to download. It will be the original that I uploaded. I can add tiffs as well (when you click that it will auto download a ~300MB tiff of the image above).
HI-REZ PART 2
Some things don't need a full YouTube video. A dynamic range, or over/under test, is often times very nice to look at in stills, that you can zoom into, digest at your own speed, or save for quick reference. A dynamic range test can by a single jpg. Different sony profiles' native ISOs and middle greys are nice to look at in chart format. Easy to save for when you need it on set. So I believe hi-rez will be a place for me to share more, without having to set up a camera, and shoot a full youtube video to share information that can be fully shown in one single image, or a series of images, that are easy to save and reference later. Don't use 7 words when 4 will do, you know? I will still post on YT as usual, but this will be a place for more.
Notes:
1) this is a lot of work
2) i am still working on fonts, design, and most importantly a night mode feature.
If all goes according to plan I will upload a video to youtube tomorrow, with a corresponding post here.
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