The following video will help you understand exposure using Cine profiles:
Takeaways
- Cine profiles (except Cine2) are beyond the legal mode, and are full swing + super whites – which means they utilize the entire region from 0 to 107 IRE. (50 IRE 18% grey, 90 IRE white). Cine2 follows the legal range and is designed to be within 100 IRE.
- You can underexpose by up to 2 stops to retain highlight detail, and you should be fine.
- You should not want to overexpose your scenes by more than a stop. It might look okay for sky and foliage, but will look worse for skin tones or anything with red-orange in them.
- The color mode (color space) to use is ALWAYS Cinema. Don’t mix and match.
- You can play with the detail setting to sharpen according to taste. Some clients like super-sharp images like those you get with the GH4, while others (like me) prefer a softer image and would prefer to add sharpening later in post if desired. I leave mine at their default values for general work.
