NOT What I Expected! - Sony A7SIII Low Light TEST Footage!

The Sony A7SIII is supposed to be a low-light monster right? With the footage that I am about to show, it will shock you. These are definitely not the results that I was expecting from this camera and I know you weren't too!

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[geribrn]

HLG: Best for low light for high ISO performance and shadow recovery. Processed colours
SLOG: Best for daytime to preserve the highlights. Best for colour grading

[jdlmediaco]

Cleans up at every 4 1/3 stops. Phillip bloom did a full test on it last week.

[EugeniaLoli]

Slog3 is designed to keep up to 15 stops of DR. But its Sgamut3 color space is extremely problematic and none of the available video editors shrink slog2 or slog3 to rec709 gracefully. That's why there's this yellow-brown tint on slog footage during the day, and it turns all green at night. However, HLG is designed to have a very defined color space, and it works very well. Get the "Clean Slate" Lut from a guy who made luts for hlg (find him on youtube, can't remember his name now, it's a lut pack). It works very well. HLG3 holds only 11 stops of DR, but it doesn't throw up on you. I've personally moved to HLG3 with a rec709 color mode, and Detail to -7 (otherwise its oversharpned). I wish there was a way to turn off automatic NR on Sonys too, but there's isn't.

[bjoernfischer]

I use HLG3, Detail: -6, Saturation: -12 for low light scenes on my a7sIII, it's easy to match to my s-log footage, but way less noisy :) and don't have overexpose it, so you will end up with lower isos :)

[TheLAexplorer]

Lol the same thing happened to me with the original Sony A7S. I thought it would shoot everything perfectly in low light with S-Log. Shot some footage, brought it home, and it came out super noisy. Later I found out that S-Log needs to be slightly over exposed yet not so much that the whites clip, otherwise it looks noisy. Furthermore, once I finally did get the right exposure, I realized that couldn't take it anywhere near 10, 000 ISO without having to use noise reduction. And for some reason, the S curve and saturation boost made the skin tones look terrible. That's when I decided to stop shooting in S-Log and try Cine. That was much easier to expose and color grade, and it didn't seem to give me as much noise.

Flash forward to the AS7 III. I took it out for some night shots in DTLA as well. I kept saying which ISO I was using at the beginning of every shot in order to learn where the noise comes in. Surprisingly, sometimes I could get all the way up to 51K ISO with very little noise on S-Log 3 and sometimes 51K ISO looked too noisy to use without noise reduction. Same exact settings but very different levels of noise. However, the lighting was very different. I think that's a big part of it. I think that in S-Log 3, you really need to expose the shot in a very specific way to get low light footage with low noise at high ISOs. It's all a bit too risky for me so I'll continue shooting at low ISOs unless I absolutely have to bump it up. Oh, and I tried Cine mode as well. It looked the same as S-Log and sometimes worse. And they definitely improved the color science so you don't get weird skin tones in S-Log like before but I did see it happen when shooting with someone in a garden. Could have just been the green light from the plants bouncing onto the skin though.

I'll try the HGL3 for low light tonight. Thanks for the tip.

[tonycapil]

Use Slog2 for low light. Slog3 is trying to collect as much DR as it can but with a dark scene there is nothing to really hold onto. Log and especially Raw is very noisy and the scene should be lit.

[loudandclearmedia]

Perhaps the noise came from the step in your grading workflow of increasing the gain in the midtones? I know that will always make the 8 bit Sony footage fall apart. Better to over expose.

[BalaKrishna-bqiz]

SLog3 seems to have noise issue which Slog2 is clean. I don't have the camera but watching multiple videos on this subject, it seems to be the case

[PeterKae]

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[SidneyDiongzon]

I noticed HLG3 was really good for low light too! Glad I wasn't going crazy!

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[Alakazam]

Great video! And thanks so much for using the F4 lens. I bought a 24-105mm F4 over a 28-75mm F2.8, and I didn't know how the low-light looked until you showed it!

Where exactly was the fountain in LA located?

[RICH_Photography]

Once again...a nice honest review.

So excited for you to hit that 100k sub mark. Been following and supporting the channel for years, keep it up Josh 👌

[DiraPictures]

I am testing it too right now.
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[digwillhachi]

so how did you expose? If you talk about noise in slog you need to give us more info on how you were exposing. Were you setting any middle grey or just eyeballing it? Also try 4:2:0.

[Brownboy]

If you’re at ISO 1600 and want to go up without noise, why not just skip from ISO 3200 to ISO 12, 800 and slap on a weak ND instead of throwing SLOG3 out the window?

[dannygrau]

Question should the minimum iso be at 12, 800 or should the maximum iso be set at 12, 800?

[AxelGizmo]

Awesome, thank you. Now please go ahead and test the HLG3 Leeming LUT. Does it actually work with the A7SIII, what with the new color science asf?

[sarrieeldin]

What do u think of weebil s with this camera, will it handle the weight? Is it better or the crane 2s ?

[trogdor]

Looks like you have the best of both worlds. S-LOG3 for more latitude. HLG for clean starting point but not the best for pushing files.