I wanted a quick reference for what the different Picture Profiles and color settings inside the Sony a6600 looked like. So I set up the mono pod and shot a few seconds of each.
Nothing special. Just some fake plants in natural light, but you can get a feel for the way each profile or setting handles color.
I had never messed with SLog2 or Slog3. I had a couple of LUTs I like to use, so I threw those onto some of the profiles I liked best. A Rec 709 LUT and one made for SLog footage. I made no other adjustments. Just right out of the camera with a LUT added.
Anyway, it was interesting to see how each profile handles the same shot, and how these LUTs worked with them.
Which did you like best or least?
One thing that I noticed was really bad noise in the SLog3 footage, in the shadows. Having never messed with SLog3 (or really, SLog) at all, I wondered how to combat that. Is the a6600 just terrible at SLog?
Several Youtubers suggested overexposing your SLog3 footage. Like, a lot. A lot more than you would normally want to. One suggests turning on the Zebra patterns and setting it to show at 100 IRE- That’s where SLog3 clips. So overexpose until you see zebra patterns and then back it down a bit.
I’m gong to have to play with it. Noise aside, with no other adjustment, just adding a LUT, the SLog3 footage was starting to look very nice. Imagine without noise and with a bit of tweaking?
But, was about footage right out of the camera? What about just normal shooting, where you do a minor teak and dump it out of the editor? Which looked best?
I liked Picture Profile 4. I could tweak that and use it fairly easily. I’ve done a lot of shooting in color setting Neutral. Color setting Portrait was a bit oversaturated, but could work if that’s the look you wanted.
My main takeaway after living with the footage a few days is that Slog is intriguing, and I want to see what good Slog footage looks like out of the camera. My second takeaway is tat I may switch to Picture Profile 4 for normal, quick shooting.
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