Sony’s broadcast color science is really very accurate – point one at a test chart such as a Chroma DuMonde and you’ll see highly repeatable, consistent and accurate color reproduction with all the vectors on a vector scope falling exactly where they should, including the skin tone line. Sony have a very long heritage in broadcast TV and that’s how their cameras look out of the box, like Rec-709 TV cameras with colors that are similar to the tube cameras they were producing 20 years ago. New and old Panasonics tend to look the same as do old and new Canon’s, but the Canon’s look different to the Panasonics which look different to the Sony’s. It has always been like this and all the manufacturers do this, Panasonic cameras have a certain look as do Canon etc. Is this really the case? For Sony part of the color science issue is that historically Sony have deliberately designed their newest cameras to match previous generations of cameras so that a large organisation with multiple cameras can use new cameras without having them look radically different to their old ones. Recently, Sony cameras have sometimes been seen by some as having less advanced or poor color science compared to cameras from some other manufacturers. However us end users now have a much greater ability to modify that color science thanks to better post production tools and in camera adjustments such as picture profiles or scene files. It is no one single thing, and it’s important to understand that your edit process also contributes to the overall color science.Ĭolor Science is something we have been doing since the very first color cameras, it’s not anything new. It’s a combination of optical filters such as the low pass filter, color filters, sensor properties, how the sensor is read out and how the signals are electronically processed both in the camera, by your edit/grading system and by the display device. First of all – what the heck is color science anyway? Simply put it’s how the camera sees the colors in a scene, mixes them together, records them – and then how your editing or grading software interprets what is in the recording and finally how the TV or other display device turns the digital values it receives back into a color image. “Color Science” is one of those currently in fashion phrases that gets thrown around all over the place today. And why do Sony cameras look the way they do? Additionally do let me know what you like about this LUT or don’t like, so I can look at what LUTs may be good to create in the future.Ĭlick Here to download my Arri-Look LUT (latest version 2C),Īnd here is a warmer version (may be very slightly too warm), version 2B.Ĭlick below to buy me a thank you drink if you like it and use it. All contributions are always most welcome. It is not designed to pretend to be a real Arri camera, but to instead provide an image with the look and feel of an Arri camera but tailored to the Sony sensors.Īs usual the LUT is free to download, but if you do find it useful I do ask that you buy me a coffee or other drink as a thank you. UPDATE – Some issues with the original version of the LUT were found by some users, so I have created a revised version and the revised version is now linked below.Īrri Look LUT’s are clearly very popular with a lot of Sony users, so I have created an Arri-Look LUT for the FX3/FX6/FX9/Venice that can be used to mimic the look from an Arri camera. Any new LUTs will be added to this new LUT page so do keep it book marked in your browser and check back for updates.Īrri-Look LUT V1 Arri Look V1 Sample 2 s709 Sample Regular readers of the site may have notice that I currently have a couple of new advertisers on board and their financial support should allow me to generate more LUTs going forwards. So, I have created a new fixed page for my S-Log3 LUTs which you can find via the menu bar under the Picture Settings and LUT’s category or by clicking here īut I thought it would also be a big help to have a single page with all of the more popular S-Log3 LUT’s in one place along with samples of how each LUT looks. You can see all the LUT’s that I have included here on XDCAM-USER, whether for S-Log2 or for S-Log3 as well as any articles about LUTs and how to use them by following this link. But they are spread all over the website, so sometimes they can be hard to find. Over the years I have created quite a few different LUTs and made them available here for free download.
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