Louis Kreusel

18 hours ago, Orash Rahnema said:

Hi Louis!

There's been a little misunderstanding, i wish was as you'r saying

No, unfortunatelly i don't have a film to grade and in the market where i work i don't think i will ever have the chance. 

So i wanted to do it myself shoting motion pic film in a still camera and see if i can replicate the workflow. 

I will buy the vision3 from where @Jussi Rovanperä suggested, probably the hard part would come with the proccessing and scanning. 

Hey Orash, now I got it. In that case I think that shooting the test film will be a cool educational project but your workflow will be a bit different from what you would use with digital images from RED, Arri, etc.

In my opinion, you would do well to find a film-inspired look that you like, and then come up with your own methods to find a similar look with your digital images. There's not really a right way or a wrong way, just get your look

One small workflow thing that might help would be to try "film-style grading" in which you leave your shots in log space (Red Log3G10/wgRGB or Arri LogC, etc) and then use a log to display transform as the last step in your grade. Do the grading on the log image using offsets / gain / contrast etc and see where you end up.

Good luck!

Hey Orash,

Once your test film is shot, you should get it processed and scanned at the same lab that would handle the real film.

You can then grade the test frames and see how they will look. Do you know if they want to do a film print or will the final be strictly digital?