3 Tips to Get Less Noise in Your Log Footage (CLog 1 & CLog 3 on the Canon R6/R5 & EOS R)

Canon's full frame mirrorless cameras have the capability to capture image quality similar to that of a cinema camera thanks to C-log 1 and C-log 3. Log is a tricky creature though. It can introduce unpleasant noise into your image if you're not careful. I struggled with this initially, but over time I have found some methods that help reduce noise in my films. In this video I'd like to share those tips with you! Hope this helps!

0:00 Introduction
1:13 Tip 1: No More View Assist
2:36 Tip 2: Overexpose
4:37 Tip 3: The Rule of Doubling ISO
6:41 Outro

[yarospringglory]

why are these smaller channels always 10X more easy to understand and have all your questions answered unlike the big channels that beat around the bush and don't actually answer the question i'm looking to get answered! ERIC! thank you so much for this video, been looking for this explanation and better yet showing it !!! you the man ! SUBBED

[TheRealBarkinMadd]

Thanks for posting this video. Very helpful. As a fourth tip... For Canon Clog-3, use zebras and set zebra 1 to 40% to expose your middle grey (skin a bit higher, typically, more like 55%, I believe, depending on skin tone) and you can also set zebra 2 to 80% to get a sense of where your highlights are. Get the middle grey to around the 40% mark and then increase exposure by about 1 stop (e.g., double your ISO or reduce your f-top if you are OK with the change in DoF). Too bad the R6 doesn't have a waveform display but this technique with the zebra patterns works quite well to bookend your exposure. It's amazing how important it is to over-expose Clog footage as you rightly pointed out. Otherwise there is too much noise in the shadows when trying to recover them.

[DonLinoSamuel]

Thank you, everyone tells you to overexpose but no one tells you how that works, but you explained why. Great video, really helpful

[PaulGroom-UK]

Great video, thanks... the rule of doubling the base ISO upwards is one I wasn't aware of, so appreciate you bringing this to my attention!

[slatermoorephotography]

This helped me a ton. I was really struggling to understand slog3 ! Thanks

[AstralviewsUK]

Hey Eric, this was really well-presented. Thank you for your concise delivery of the cogent points here. You have definitely helped me to dial in my clog3 footage. Chris

[Penfriendrocks]

This is SUPER helpful, thank you! I shot something indoors yesterday using two studio lights and couldn't believe how noisy the footage was. I think I was shooting at maybe 1000 ISO in CLOG 1 but have just switched to CLOG 3 after seeing this video and have made notes about doubling the ISO each time. I had no idea about having to over expose CLOG so thanks for that too!

[Thecante]

Thank you so much man, I've now watched soooo many videos but this is by far the most easy to digest! I appreciate you sir 🙏🏾

[ecmjr]

Oh man, I didn't know about the ISO doubling technique and the logic behind it, and the same with +1 EV. I bought the EOS R and need more practice with Log. Great Video!

[photograph_e]

The rule of doubles was definitely very informative! Just really getting into cinematography now and i've been playing with clog3 on my r6mkii and I definitely needed to know that! Thank you!

[RoccoGermani]

Definitely agree with you about the overexposure tip. Great video!

[SouthpawAutoworks]

Really appreciate this video. Thank you.
Been getting more familiar with shooting log, but have been using the View Assist feature. Talk about a misnomer...

[bonkmedia]

This was such a helpful video! I was way under exposing on clog and couldn’t figure out why it was so noisy

[jameldecasseres]

excellent tips! especially on the base iso. Thank you for sharing!

[richritter]

Great tips! I tried the raising the ISO on my R5 to 1600 while watching this, and it DID look pretty clean. At least while reviewing through the EVF. Thanks!

[fluffycast]

This video saved my footage event last week bro thank you

[trevgrossjr]

Super helpful!! Using C-log has helped my podcast look a bunch but i have been puzzled with the noise in my shorts. But doubling the iso… who knew lol thank you

[MrHurdleking]

a lot of help didn't know about base iso for log

[Mafatgid]

Thank you ! I'll keep these tips in mind!

[andrewallenmedia]

Extremely helpful, going to use the tips on iso next time I shoot C-Log 3