Re: promist with HD

Just on another note

I hate promist filters in general. They make everything look very 70's. But that's personal taste I guess.
Regarding HD and Promist. Using a Promist kills the advatages of HD. You mush your image forever. If I were you I would shoot everything clean and then degrade the image during a professional colour correction with real HD monitors or a projected image just to a degree that you like. With a promist you have changed your image for good without a chance to really tweak it to where you want it anymore.
Re. sharpness. I see that HD looks extremely sharp and don't like it mayself. Of course you should always shoot 24p and not interlaced. That's one thing. The second is that when you do an extreme close up of a person you will see so much detail that it will actually not be very flattering. That's when you degrade in post to clean up those pimpels a bit:)
That's the extreme sharpness people talk about. You see too much detail especially on a cineam screen. Detail that's more than reallity sometimes. That's when things start looking elcetronic and unreal.

Filters in general:
I only us ND's ND grads and the occasional POLE Filter. That's it. I only use them to control contrast. Everything else happens in post when you tweak your image. Most impoartant is that you have all your info in the "negative" so you can then play nicely.

Best of luck
Richard


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