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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Sigma 600mm Lens On Chronos

« on: April 17, 2022, 10:15:52 AM »

I was thinking about getting a Minolta 500mm lens for the Chronos 1.4.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Chronos 1.4 Footage Thread

« on: April 17, 2022, 10:06:42 AM »

@B.H.V: Regards upscaling, i wonder how it would do with some Really Nasty, Busy Background or lot of Random Highlights like Water Drops and Stuff, or even worse Glitter and Stuff like That. Guess that would be about the Worst you could Throw at it. Anything with a Well Blurred out/ Soft Background and Clean Lines should do quite Well for Upscaling, especially if they keep working on it all the Time.

Here's a quick screen record of Topaz VEAI comparing the before and after of raking leaves. Again, not perfect but in my opinion more useable than the original file and pretty decent coming from a 1.4. In the video, it shows the two side by side at normal viewing, and then zoomed in 50% and 100%. At normal viewing, it's more than useable in my opinion. Sometimes, I use anti-moire filters to fight extreme aliasing when I shoot, but I mostly use them on my Sony RX10 IV in the HFR modes since they have more lineskipping and moire compared to the Chronos 1.4.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPg5U1HKgKc

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Chronos 1.4 Footage Thread

« on: April 16, 2022, 08:37:29 PM »

@Nikon1 Good idea! I'm gonna try and test some of those things out.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Chronos 1.4 Footage Thread

« on: April 16, 2022, 07:28:52 PM »

@Solcscud007 that's some really nice reach! How's the weight and balance of that lens on the Chronos 1.4?

@Nikon1 Thank you! Yes, Topaz VEAI has had major updates to it this past year, and I'm sure it will get better. There's a lot more finetuning of parameters to avoid oversharpening and artifacts. As long as I don't overdo it or go past 2X upscale, I think it works pretty decently on most scenes. I also use a bit of Neat Video and film grain if I need to even out the image more. I'll post more examples and side by side comparisons in the coming days. : )

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Chronos 1.4 Footage Thread

« on: April 16, 2022, 03:33:51 PM »

Hi all. It's been a while since I posted as I've been doing a lot of testing when it comes to bringing out the best in the Chronos 1.4 files. Here is a clip I shot of a bird taking off at 1500 fps at 1280 X 720P. I upscaled it via Topaz VEAI to 2560 X 1440P and outputted it as an HDR video for Youtube. As some of you may know, Youtube does a pretty bad job when it compresses video files resulting in banding in extreme areas. Upscaling to 4K does help to allow for that higher bit rate for playback, but in extreme gradient or low light, the banding is very noticeable with or without film grain. However, I did some testing when uploading it to Youtube as an HDR file and the banding is almost non-existent (even in extreme gradient and low light areas). Looks like Youtube compresses HDR files much less. If you do have an HDR display definitely view in that mode at 1440P for the best quality and low banding. I'm viewing this in HDR with my Macbook Pro 16" M1 MAX.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VofS6en24w

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Post Chronos 2.1 clips here!

« on: April 07, 2022, 05:55:22 AM »

Very nice color!

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Chronos 1.4 Footage Thread

« on: November 09, 2021, 02:17:37 PM »

Nice capture!

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General high-speed discussion / Re: Upscaling footage

« on: September 13, 2021, 06:11:23 AM »

Yeah, I use Topaz VEAI too with some artifact reducing software. Works great for me most of the time.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Post Chronos 2.1 clips here!

« on: May 31, 2021, 05:39:30 PM »

Nice job with this clip!

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Post Chronos 2.1 clips here!

« on: February 16, 2021, 06:40:23 AM »

Some fun in the snow.



linke to full video

https://vimeo.com/512134181

Awesome snowball footage!

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Replacing a broken BNC-Jack on the Chronos /Repair /How To

« on: October 27, 2020, 12:33:48 PM »

Thanks for sharing.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: New Chronos 3.7 4k !

« on: October 20, 2020, 05:58:37 AM »

Wow! That be nice.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Chronos 1.4 Footage Thread

« on: October 15, 2020, 06:33:58 PM »

Hello everbody,

i tried my look with some sparklers. Tested from 1,500 fps up to 25,00 fps.
I get the feeling, that I can't focus it any better but it still looks out of focus some times

video available in around 2 hours... i have to go to sleep now an let youtube do it's thing

https://youtu.be/E4sjlqmX4F8

PS: I finally get to test the DAIN program at one of my popcorn clips from my last video.

For only one clip that lastet about 20 seconds my computer took around 3 hours to create a 4 times slower video. ... But the result was stunningly good!!!
But for my kind of video hobby youtube thing, this tooks way too long. But maybe for single clips I can use it. But not for the whole video.

Yeah, DAIN is awesome! The only thing are the render times can be long. But it does get you some pretty nice results on certain footage.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Chronos 1.4 Footage Thread

« on: October 11, 2020, 08:01:10 PM »

1280 X 1024 to 4K test. This test also shows the difference between shooting 8 BIT MP4 and 12 BIT Cinema DNG on the Chronos 1.4. As you can see, you get way less banding and artifacts compared to shooting on MP4. I might start uploading to Vimeo since Youtube still introduces artifacts and banding that I'm not seeing in the original video. Still you can see the difference between the two formats.

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Chronos User Discussion / Re: Post Chronos 2.1 clips here!

« on: October 06, 2020, 04:26:13 PM »

Yeah, Vimeo should be much better.