Koji vs other film LUTs

[Tom Evans]

Do you know what else the Koji LUTs offer other than the Fuji and Kodak LUTs that comes with Davinci Resolve?

[dermot.shane]

i have the entire load of koji luts somewhere on my server, i can drop some over a grey scale in the next few days

a cleint bought them for me to use on his project, and we ended up not using them

 

[Tom Evans]

That would be great Dermot, I can't see how Koji could get closer to the various stock types than than the ones that Fuji and Kodak provides for free themselves.

[dermot.shane]

i remembered going through this years ago, and it was nothing like known 2383 emulation luts. I compared it to two luts that are un-encumbered by active IP both of them are solid...  i compared to a number of other 2383 luts from Resolve, Nucoda and Baselight, all very similar, as were the Luthier and CineByte lut's

from memory, there was some wonky maths in the shadows,red channel doubling back over top of it's self, and some jaggy steps in the skintones area

i rolled my own when i had them presented by a producer, was not crazy about dealing with the outfall of the maths in Koji

i'm rendering overnight, (feature film DCP has to be in LA tomorow, mix arrived at 4.30 pm.. sigh)  will try to squeeze in a test before client arrives tomorrow

 

[Tom Evans]

Hope you managed to get it to LA without too much stress! It seems from your feedback that Koji is nothing more than a marketing hype.

[Anton Meleshkevich]

As far as I know, most of the 2383 emulation LUTs use the same data provided by lightillusion. That's why they all are look similar: dark blues, dark desaturated reds, greens shifted towards yellow.

All the differences are the RGB curves (creative contrast and toning).

I can be wrong.

[dermot.shane]

I hae 2383 lut's dateing back to the 90's when i used Kodak Display Manager for callibration, and Flame for comping, long long long time before Steve started Light Ilusion