filming at 60fps vs 30fps .. strongest Image quality.

Rob B

Rob B

Hi all,

I am trying to build the flexibility of slo-mo into my shots.. Not that all of them are slow, but the ability to choose would be nice.. If I don't want slow motion, does it make sense to go back to 30fps?

For the strongest quality image I am assuming the following on my T3i.. (that is not here yet).

1. Shoot in Native ISO's - ISO 160, 320, 640
2. Shoot at 1/30 or 1/60 shutter speed (I assume if I shoot at 60fps, 1/60 is better?)
3. Shoot in 1080p ?
 
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New test..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkgaJ2bNnDk


A little dark, but switched to 1/50 and instead of panning, going with a dolly movement. There was a lot of wind noise, so I added a soundtrack .... :D
 
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Leaving a breadcrumb for the next guy.. Research shooting in a neutral image mode. The Canon t3i has many modes, most of which will over saturate and sharpen. Best results are to shoot a neutral image, and color correct after.
 
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Rob B said:
Leaving a breadcrumb for the next guy.. Research shooting in a neutral image mode. The Canon t3i has many modes, most of which will over saturate and sharpen. Best results are to shoot a neutral image, and color correct after.
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You got it, bro. And turn everything down to zero within the neutral image too. This is subjective, so there will be somebody coming down the road to tell me I'm wrong. ;)
 
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CamVader said:
You got it, bro. And turn everything down to zero within the neutral image too. This is subjective, so there will be somebody coming down the road to tell me I'm wrong. ;)
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Yep!.. I kept wondering why I was getting 'video' looking footage, but not filmic looking footage..

Search Veimo for Family Trip to Disneyland and search for Kilver court Gardens. You will find some very very strong and filmic imagery. The first example will also take you to a very cool, must see blog.. Where he talks about how much post processing he does on his images. I was surprised to see how much the image was tweaked.


From how I see it, the shooting modes are a way of choosing a canned effect if you don't plan on color correcting later.. I can see how they may be handy to capture a unique look, if you don't plan on needing neutral imagery to process later down the road.
 
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Rob B said:
Leaving a breadcrumb for the next guy.. Research shooting in a neutral image mode. The Canon t3i has many modes, most of which will over saturate and sharpen. Best results are to shoot a neutral image, and color correct after.
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Yeah neutral at the minumum. I am actually experimenting with "crooked flat" which is into the negative numbers on contrast.
 
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I'd be careful about turning "everything" down. I've settled on Neutral with sharpness all the way down, contrast all or most of the way down depending on scene contrast, and color at middle or 1 notch down.

Not sure - does the T3i have a live histogram available? If so it's worth getting to know it. With the contrast, if you don't have enough contrast in your scene to push things out near both ends of the histogram you're basically losing data if your contrast is set too low. If you don't have a histogram then it's safer just to set contrast all the way down. With the color setting I think it's better to have a little too much saturation than too little. The codec throws out a lot of color data and the color channels are the noisiest as well, so if you end up having to bring the saturation up in post it's likely to have a negative impact on visible noise.
 
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