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Here is a sample of the first roll I captured last night with the new Retro 8 scanner. The only tweaking was the exposure, captured and rendered at 720P. You do see a tad of the upper frame line, but captured another roll this morning where i used the framer, tweaked the RGB, and used the grain reduction.. it looks a lot better but can't show it on account of exceeding my Vimeo upload limit. I'm still getting used to the unit and features, but can see the awesome potential!
https://vimeo.com/68714099
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Thanks for sharing! Looks pretty good. :D What's your opinion on the dynamic range of the camera inside the Retro 8? Are you able to bring out more details in the shadows without going all white in the sky?
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What film was it shot on and what sort of camera?
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JeremyC wrote:What film was it shot on and what sort of camera?
I used my Nizo 481 and Ektachrome 100D. The dynamic range is pretty good, the color really pops on the sunny stuff i've been transferring today. The 100D is definitely hi con, but not any more than a high end telecine when it come to reversal. I've been shooting the negative stocks larely and really excited to see how those work out.
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awand wrote:Thanks for sharing! Looks pretty good. :D What's your opinion on the dynamic range of the camera inside the Retro 8? Are you able to bring out more details in the shadows without going all white in the sky?
The camera's gamma has been adjusted at the chip level to try and anticipate reversal contrast. Also, there is a gamma adjustment in the capture software. You can turn down the exposure to protect the highlights and then use the gamma adjustment to bring detail out of the shadow areas. This effectively lets you compress the contrast range so that you can do what you wish later in post.

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awand wrote:Thanks for sharing! Looks pretty good. :D What's your opinion on the dynamic range of the camera inside the Retro 8? Are you able to bring out more details in the shadows without going all white in the sky?
The camera's gamma has been adjusted at the chip level to try and anticipate reversal contrast. Also, there is a gamma adjustment in the capture software. You can turn down the exposure to protect the highlights and then use the gamma adjustment to bring detail out of the shadow areas. This effectively lets you compress the contrast range so that you can do what you wish later in post.

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Giving that a try on the scan i'm doing now and it works very well. You can really bring out the highlights without blowing anything out. Been playing with it all day and as I get more comfortable with the features and work flow, the scans keep coming out nicer.
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Enjoyed your 1 min scan. Looks very good.
I am interested to know how large the file size of your 720P 1 minute video is.
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I would be interested to know the file sizes of a 50 foot roll before and after pulldown. Lots of detail in that 720 transfer. I thought the skies were too blown out but the one scene of the raspberries on the green vines was really nice. Keep up the good work.

Here's my youtube from some years back of 100D in regular 8:
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super8man wrote:I would be interested to know the file sizes of a 50 foot roll before and after pulldown. Lots of detail in that 720 transfer. I thought the skies were too blown out but the one scene of the raspberries on the green vines was really nice. Keep up the good work.

Here's my youtube from some years back of 100D in regular 8:
<a href="http://youtu.be/slttvF9MX-I" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="vglnk"><span>http</span><span>://</span><span>youtu</span><span>.</span><span>be</span><span>/</span><span>slttvF9MX</span><span>-</span><span>I</span></a>
A 50ft roll comes out to about 2.2GB as a processed MOV file. The unprocessed file on my capture drive is about 750MB. I've processed a few captures as numbered image sequences (don't know the size off hand) but i need to figure out away to deal with it in Sony Vegas... I'm able to bring them into the time line where the default is 5 seconds per frame. I'm able to change that value but haven't found a number to plug in yet that works right. I've been sticking to the native 720P, Sony has a nice MFX 720P 24fps codec for intermediate full size renders.
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Don't drag the folder of images to your timeline. Go to "import file" and when you open the folder that has the images, click on the first one to highlite it. Then check the box for image sequence and okay. At least that's how it works in Premier.

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