HG 4 on PMW350 - very saturated

[harryllama@yahoo.com]

Hello, Alister,
We've been using hypergamma (HG) 4 on the 350 in order to get a fuller range of light than the standard gammas. It's my understanding that the hypergammas generally look "duller" than, say, the cinegammas in the EX3. However, we were surprised to see how saturated the colors were! (We are monitoring through a matrox mx02 hooked up by hdmi to a 23" samsung monitor that has been calibrated with the matrox settings using color bars fed by FCP.) We had to reduce saturation to get colors to look more like they did in the concert hall. Am I mistaken about HGs?

Harry

[alisterchapman]

The luma contrast will normally be flatter looking but saturation should be similar. It may be a combination of the flatter brightness range when combined with a normal saturation range that is giving the appearance of an oversaturated image.