From the course: DSLR Video Tips: Cameras & Lenses
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What is log?
- Hi, my name's Rich Harrington. - And I'm Robbie Carman. - And we're going to talk about one my favorite subjects, of course, math. I love math, Rob, right? - Yeah. I see you sometimes just standing over to the side of the studio to just do some equations. - Log is all about the ability to shoot with a different space of color, but there are some math components, right? - Don't think of it as a color space necessarily. Think about it as a way of encoding the video signal. And without getting too geeky and too mathematical about it, log comes from logarithmic. And if you know anything about logarithmic, that word, it doesn't mean straight, it means we're on a curve here. And the whole purpose for recording log images or encoding video in a logarithmic scale is to retain shadow and highlight detail. Now, Rich, we've had this problem ourselves. - Oh, yeah. - We've seen thousands of people shoot video, they're like, "What's wrong with the video?" Their blacks are crushed. Their…
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