Canon 5D MKII CineStyle Test

Shot on a Canon 5D mkII using the Technicolor CineStyle picture style. I used the log and transfer function in Final Cut Pro 6 to import the footage to Apple ProRes 422 (HQ). After dropping the clips to the timeline I exported the timeline to Apple's Color.

In Color I changed the LUT (look up table) to the CineStyle S Curve I downloaded from Technicolor which dramatically added contrast and chroma. I then tweaked the primary grade for a more vibrant look.

Careful Browsing: Finder vs. Bridge

Attention graphic designers! All is not what it appears to be. I had this problem come up yesterday at work. A designer in my department came into my office to see a preview of the latest photos I shot for a new marketing campaign. I put the images in the photo archive on the shared server and he went back to his cubicle. He IM'ed me a few moments later stating that he didn't see the color correction to the DNG files on his machine.

It turns out that he was using the Finder in MacOSX Jaguar to browse the photos. Apple has done some pretty good work in enabling their Finder to view camera RAW files, which is far better than Microsoft. But it doesn't apply the Develop settings embedded in the metadata to the preview. Hence when he views the files with the Finder the photos don't look color corrected. After I told him to try Adobe Bridge the color corrections showed on his previews.

The moral of this story is to always browse photos in Bridge and not the Finder.