External video recorder professional#
That is a pretty crazy response from Leica Sebben, sad to see that, I have not seen any moire yet when filming but I have never brought it to a professional commercial shoot, we too shoot on Alexa minis and Red Gemini’s with OLPFs I will say the footage looks great on the SL2 on Leica M glass from 90s which may point to their response on when moire happens with L mount native glass and its level of resolution. Thanks for your on going thoughts and responses appreciate your respective opinions and links shared. If average detail sharpness (and that does produce a somehow boring look) is required and the absence of any Moiré is most important, a camera with OPLF will serve such requirements much better. So we do not necessarily see this as a weakness of the concept, but potential customers need to know the special characteristics of our product: If you would like to maintain maximum detail, this camera is most probably the best in the market and for non periodic structures it will not cause any issues. So it is tricky to find the right balance, but our philosophy is always to maintain as much as possible detail (same is true for the noise reduction, as you correctly reported in your article). Regarding Moiré for such periodic structures it is the best solution to use an optical low pass filter inside the camera or with a lens with low detail contrast performance. The drawback of such lenses is the tendency to produce Moiré if the lens resolution is better than the sensor resolution. On top, Leica SL lenses are designed for ultimate detail contrast, offering MTF >50% at 60 LP/mm.
External video recorder full#
(Rolling shutter is already pretty good in full frame with this camera vs. It will provide video without pixel mix and on top better rolling shutter performance. But if the aesthetics of the large format is not needed and a more technical approach regarding image quality is required, the APS-C option does deliver better performance with SL2´s high resolution sensor. We all know, that there is some demand for full frame 4k filming and SL2 does follow this demand in order to make the aesthetics of the large sensor available for specific applications. But the camera offers as well a full scan option by switching to APS-C format (means roughly Super 35). When recording video in full frame mode, we use pixel mix to get the 4k resolution. Moiré: The camera is designed without optical low pass filter in order to maximize the acutance for still images. I didn’t test it extensively after it became clear the the full frame mode has moiré.Īnd on that subject you can see Leicas response (which I find hilarious) on the cined website. Ben Jacks // Edited Decemby jacksbenjamin
So, what external recorders are you using? Also are you adding the Leica vertical handgrip to help with power outages given how power hungry the camera is when doing video?Ģ- do you know if the SL2-S can do higher frame rates then 29fps in Log mode when shooting internally?
To me shooting non LOG gives far too strong a “baked in” look. Hi all, first off want to thank everyone who contributes to the education and participation here, it’s a wonderful Leica community and grateful for it!ġ- who has had great experience with the SL2 for professional video? What blows my mind is that you have to use an external recorder to shoot any FPS over 29.97 in C4K Log mode for SL2, for professional use I believe it’s totally needed to shoot LOG in any of the frame rates yet the camera really only performs at its best with an external recorder, which may not want to use all the time - thus you are stuck with 29.FPS and below internally.
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