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Recording log mode in camera

Recording log mode in camera

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Recording log mode in camera

- You know, Rich, as you mentioned, a lot of different cameras are shooting LOG these days, and we want to talk about how to set up a camera to enable LOG recording, but I do want to make one point first. All flavors of LOG are not equal. Now you mentioned previously that LOG is kind of a way of getting to a neutral starting point for a lot of different cameras. - Yeah. - But it is important to note that different cameras have different LOG rhythmic curves. By the way, I didn't mention that either. The word LOG really means Logarithmic. It's a way of encoding the signal that's non-linear. And so, to that end, for example, Sony will have their own LOG format, S-LOG, S-LOG 2, S-LOG 3. They actually have a couple different flavors, 'cause they're Sony. Canon would have Canon LOG. I have a Blackmagic URSA Mini here. Blackmagic doesn't even call it LOG. They call it Film Mode, which is just a way of saying LOG, but they dressed it up a little bit. - [Rich] And we actually have other ones…

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