How to MAXIMIZE your RED Camera Sensor

great video ! but ISO has never changed the amount of light hitting the sensor, it's a digital boost of the signal after the sensor, so it's working like every other camera, it's just that in raw ISO are closer to Exposure Index than true ISO on other camera because you're aways recording your native iso and have the choice to modify it in post !

Love when tutorial about exposure starts with clipping on face😅

Bro thanks for sharing. I am using the Epic Red Dragon and the color on it is amazing. I just added internal ND and a Global Shutter with the Motion Mount. Powerful

You should show what settings you change on the camera for each given scenario

Great video dude!!

Hey Sam, amazing content as usual!

hello, could you please make a new video and talk more on a real life exposure scenarios like this you are sitting by your bed ? what exactly setting you have and what do you use for setting exposure? false colors or GIO Scope?

Finally. You are the first of many who actually in clear, clean and well constructed manner where able to explain and deliver how this actually works.
Thank you!

Love it. Thanks, Sam! 🎥

I would start and exposure video without overexposing your face 😅

No iso affects how much light hits your sensor

Red actually says to raise the ISO to 1600 or higher in daylight / bright scenes because it gives you a better image from shifting dynamic rage to the middle / highlights. They use examples and show how the affects the raw image. You of course have to adjust ND or f-srop ass needed. I think few people really shoot this way but it makes sense once you see the test footage.

Thank you so much how important is white balance on a red camera is that also a lut based idea do you need to adjust your white balance ?

Thanks for the video, very informative. I’m gonna share some of my thoughts as I just got the Komodo and watched hours of these traffic light tutorials

I don’t understand why everyone keeps making the claim that iso doesn’t matter then they say it matters for highlight/shadow protection. Many sources say that the footage actually directly benefits from the practice that you described (shifting the middle gray point, higher iso when more light and so on). I understood you that it’s more of an exposure adjustment dial for monitoring purposes than something that affects the image directly.

And the example with lower iso for moody scenes with less light makes a lot of sense to me, I can see how I would want to have darker look but still expose kind of to the right if possible. But the example with shooting higher iso in bright exterior scenes is strange - I’m either gonna look at annoyingly bright monitor that doesn’t reflect how I want my footage to look, or I will up the iso and then compensate so much with NDs and/or iris that shadows will get noisy. Feels like it’s better to stay at 800/500 and just watch traffic lights, unless there’s actually some benefit for the footage when raising iso

Good explanation.

I found this helpful, thanks. Yours is the first resource I've come across that explains the way increased ISO can preserve highlight information with RED: it's just a cheat to cause us to stop down so our histogram reports good exposure. The traffic lights may have already been happy, but by doing this we just give the highlights that much more share of the data real estate. You found a simple way to make this easily absorbable. Thanks!

Thanks for the video! This is the first time I've understood how this works

There is a significant difference in highlight retention going over 800 iso on these RED's.

Ok so what I am trying to understand is that if you are clipping on the sensor, and changing the ISO won't change that, then isn't it that the only reason why the ISO you choose matters is because it will affect how you light the scene? But if you're NOT clipping on the sensor then the ISO you choose on set doesn't matter in terms of where you map your dynamic range because you can change that in post? In other words, the only time you need to worry about mapping your dynamic range is when you know the sensor is going to clip no matter what, so you're basically manipulating your lighting, aperture and NDs to choose what you want to clip? (so you are not using ISO to map your dynamic range essentially, you are using everything else. i.e. NDs aperutre, lights etc)

Hi Sam, as far as I know, ISO doesn't have any impact when you are filming, it is just like a LUT. When you talk about increasing or lowering ISO, do you mean in post? Cheers!

iso doesn't affect how much light is hitting the sensor on ANY camera, not just red. Iso is not part of exposure