Watch it in 4K and a low-light room for the best viewing experience, and at high volume.
The camera used is mentioned in the description, which will compel you to actually read what I wrote :) It costs around $500 on eBay now, although at the time, it was around $5000 in 2012.
This was a quick shoot; however, even though it was done on the fly, a lot of details went into it, just not as many as I would include when making a short film, for example.
I titled it "Life as it Comes" because sometimes, we should just watch and appreciate what we have and are. The title felt appropriate.
I wanted to convey as much natural sense as possible, hence the choice of handheld footage without post-stabilization in DaVinci Resolve. That was my intent.
Of course, in a different scene, I could have easily used a Zhiyun crane or a DJI RS3, along with IBIS in the lens and IBIS in-camera, for example with the Lumix S5II X. Plus, I could have used metadata to stabilize it even further in DaVinci with the Gyro stabilization effect, which is even more effective and precise than the standard "perspective" stabilization effect.
I could achieve triple the results with a different low-budget camera, the name of which I won't mention because I'm not ready to share that with you yet. Alternatively, if I could comfortably afford it, I would obviously go with the Arri Alexa, the queen/king of highlights and color science.
I also used a low-budget Zeiss lens, but for a short film or small production, I would undoubtedly use the Zeiss Otus, as there are no spherical lenses like it, or go with a decent low-budget anamorphic lens instead.
All these elements together ultimately create more quality than what I was able to achieve with what I have.
Over the last five years, I've been learning color correction and grading, starting with Adobe Premiere Pro and quickly realizing six months later that DaVinci was the one for me!
Since then, it's been a process of refinement. In the beginning, I remember using up to 40 nodes-crazy, what was I thinking? Now, I've reduced it to simply five, at most seven nodes, some of which contain my secret sauce.
Less is more with color grading, and it's indeed true. I'll certainly make more videos exclusively talking about my color/post workflow and will share as much as I can. However, some secrets will remain undisclosed, like a chef keeping their secret recipe.
In the end, I've said this many times before: Hollywood is in our pocket, and technology has allowed us to learn and achieve what was once only available to the Hollywood elite. I wish to thank DaVinci Resolve and the Blackmagic Design company for offering their editing software to anyone; like never before, we have affordable and better equipment that can rival big-budget gear at times.
Lastly, half of the battle is on location with your gear and vision, and the other half is in post.
Oh, and I forgot to mention, the camera I used for this, which the title refers to as supreme, is the Canon 5D Mark III.
The alternative low-budget camera, which I prefer over the Canon 5D Mark III, as mentioned above, I'm not ready to share with you yet, but it can easily achieve more than triple this quality.
Another thank you goes to Magic Lantern; without this software, this decent quality would not be possible in the Canon 5D. Thumbs up to the engineers and developers of that software. Thank you from my heart; I hope I am giving your software justice.
Finally, this test aimed to show that the Canon 5D mark III, a 12-year-old camera, can almost put to shame the newest cameras today. Not so much that it would win spec-wise (some specs it would), but you wonder, what have these camera companies been doing for the last decade? The newest cameras should be way ahead, but something is off, something is not right.
Gatekeeping? Lack of R&D?
What do you think? Did you ever use the Canon 5D? And with Magic Lantern? Comment below. 😄
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