hi Can you spot the difference between these two clips because one of them was shot on a
seventy thousand dollar re camera and the other one was shot on my 2500 Blackmagic pocket 6K Pro
so how'd you do if you guessed that cam a was the pocket 6K and cam B was the re you'd be wrong it
came a was the re35 and cam B was my pocket 6K Pro now for most people re is pretty much the king
of the Hollywood Cinema Camera World and anytime they come out with a not only new camera like body
or accessories but a new sensor it usually shakes the entire industry now what is the point of doing
this one because it's fun and this is my video and I can do whatever I want but two it's interesting
to see how close cameras can get and kind of match together in different scenarios when their budget
is so astronomically far apart so recently when I saw Ari release a bunch of sample footage put
it on their website to download I spent over three days downloading 1.2 terabytes of sample footage
I got really curious how does this compare to my pocket 6K Pro and so I hand-picked a bunch of re
raw clips and then went through all of the footage that I've shot with my pocket 6K Pro and tried to
find clips that match specific scenarios it's not the perfect scientific test but it gives
some very clear insight as to why there is such a cost difference between these cameras and should
help people like you and me who probably don't have a camera that expensive still get the most
out of it now there are a ton of reasons why a camera would cost a lot or a little of course
some of that includes the materials and r d that go into building the actual housing and
there there's no real debate I mean black Magic's body styles are usually pretty pretty plasticky
and you can definitely tell that's where they have a lot of their cost saving methods whereas
Ari is on all sorts of set all around the world in different temperatures and dust and wind and
snow and rain you could pour a beer in here and you might do something to the fan but nothing
else is gonna there's I have a picture somewhere of a completely dust caked camera it was some TV
series that we were shooting out the desert do you remember which one that was the new Grand Tool The
Grand Tour yeah yeah you know they would take some canned air at the end of every day they'd stick it
in the top and blow the dust on the bottom yeah and you're done and that's that's really the most
cleaning you need to do because that dust is never going to get to the electronics by the way I kind
of feel like I'm gonna get a bunch of comments saying like I'm saying Ari wrong and it's Airy I
always forget Porsche Porsche whatever you know what now I'm self-conscious and uh we're gonna
decide for the rest of this video if I'm saying it right no Aria has actually never performed all
right potato dress has Airy and he he's friends with them so I'm gonna switch it up Harry now on
this channel we talk about comparing cameras a lot it's not always just comparing them but also how
to make one camera look like another and I want to reveal to you one of my biggest secret tools
that I've been using and that is called cinematch which happens to be today's sponsor as well City
match is a plug-in designed for DaVinci Resolve Final Cut and Premiere and allows you to choose
from a list of supported cameras to match one another now I know what you're thinking because
I've already been there why do I need to plug in to do that I can just import like iPhone footage
and add a re on top of it but it's not that simple because the way an Aries sensor where I've said it
two different ways in this bit because the way the sensor works on the camera is different than
the way the sensor of the iPhone inherently looks so if you apply a utility Lut transform it thinks
it's starting with a certain amount of colors contrast gamma all that stuff and applying a
change to it that isn't going to be accurate so with Cinemax you easily tell it which camera you
actually shot on whether it's an iPhone or a Sony or a Canon or a Blackmagic or zcam or Airy or any
others and then you tell it what camera you want it to match the sensor data to and then
it's going to match your original camera to the new cameras sensor characteristics a lot of us
have multiple cameras but not the same one so let's say you shot an interview and on camera
a you had a black magic but then your B cam was a Sony in the past those have been pretty difficult
to match up you could do it but you'd have to be a pretty decent colorist now it takes about four
clicks and not only does it quickly apply the look to match the camera but it also gives you
raw like controls I've used this utility for the past couple of years pretty much in every video
where I'm trying to match One camera to another I even used it to help Dave Mays out when he was
working at Indy Mogul and he did that trying to fool iJustine and Armando where they shot Canon
Airy and iPhones trying to fool cinematographers and we use cinematch as kind of the base layer of
getting those Corrections if you want to give Cinemax a try click the link below for a free
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and your footage huge thanks to cinematch and film convert for sponsoring today's video now let's get
back to matching these two cameras keep in mind this is not a scientific video because of course
the clips weren't shot at the same exact time also lens Choice makes a a huge difference in quality
because the Iraq city lenses that I'm using which cost you know 1300 bucks I'm sure nowhere near the
match of I don't know what lenses were exactly used in all the different sample footage but
if it's you know re primes or anything like that I mean those are twenty Thirty forty thousand dollar
lenses individually also the camera's settings are not going to be matched I wasn't able to find any
of the exif data for the ra raw files so I have no idea what ISO what shutter angle or anything like
that was used for these clips so with all that in mind let's check out why there's a 65 to 70
000 difference between these two cameras and is it worth it so if you haven't noticed the weird
aspect ratio of this video I have it set to the re35 and again Airy 35s opened gate native
resolution so it's the full sensor readout essentially so I'm cropping my pocket 6K Pro
footage but the resolution of the Ari 35 open gate is 4096 by 2304 so again it's not the most
high resolution camera out there but anyway let's compare it to my pocket camera so the
first example here is probably one of the easiest to um kind of get wrong if you were to put them
side by side and that is this city scene so if I play this here this is the arie35 and then we
have my clip from uh there's actually knoopsy both Clips are kind of City escapes you have relatively
overcast days it looks like the Airy one is even more overcast mine had a little bit more sun it
was actually like right before golden hour if you had a movie shot on the area 35 and had to insert
this pocket 6K Pro clip you could match these incredibly easy now do we see any major difference
in these two clips and and I'll be honest like in my opinion nothing super stands out and then
we get to one of the best examples of dynamic range and that is this clip right here which
actually starts in a room that seemingly has no Lighting in it whatsoever just some light leaking
from uh another room and then they open up these double doors into a room that is receiving direct
sunlight we can see a perfectly well exposed exterior not only the leaves and and trees and
stuff but behind the leaves you can see Blue Sky we jump to this I actually just shot the other day
this was actually shot at Shawshank thanks to my friends cliff and cajun for bringing me out
for a shoot so this shot is completely all natural there's no artificial lighting anywhere it's just
the light coming in from the window and bouncing off of objects to kind of fill in his face now
from an exposure standpoint both of these look great if I jump to the rec 709 conversion I'm
very happy with how my pocket performed I'm happy with the separation of colors I think
the noise levels also look fairly decent if we look at darker areas like in the Hat here these
are all still nice in black and keep in mind I just did a Rec 709 conversion there's no grading
to this whatsoever this is where things start to differ quite a bit so this is a macro shot
of an eyeball looks awesome this is from the Airy definitely has a Greener tint to it again not sure
what color temperatures that the camera was set to what sort of lighting all that stuff no idea
if it's definitely a soft image and has an eyeball which funny enough when I got my irex 150 macro
I almost did the same exact shot so that's pretty lucky these are both uh logs straight
out of camera this is my pocket 6K but we can start to see the colors breaking or the lack
of color depth you will start to see if we go to the rec 709 conversion here you can see not only
is my pocket have way it's way more noisy the color noise is starting to get out of control
the transition from colors is just so seamless so you start at like this kind of yellowish
which transitions to like this almost like really off-white color and then in the greens like the
blend between colors is incredibly smooth and when we start to get up to my pocket here you can see
that the technically the whites of my eyes has a lot of pinkish Hues to it which is understandable
from either getting color casts or just the color temperature however I shot it but also mix that in
with noise you start to get this banding where it just really starts to show the lack of variation
in colors it's not terrible and it's definitely way past what 8-bit or even 10-bit is able to
do the handling of the noise is just honestly probably one of the biggest differences and to
the average person you may not say okay that's not worth you know 65 Grand but in Hollywood or
to any major production this is a huge reason to pay that much amount of money to get that cleaner
of an image you'll also notice that in terms of sharpness have you noticed yet that like the
top image is 6k and the bottom one is 4K this clip may not be the best because they're both
extremely shallow so it's not fair to say like in and out but if I go back to this clip here
does my top image does that look significantly higher resolution than the bottom image uh in
Focus subject no again this is why the resolution race has a lot to do with marketing so the next
clip this was kind of cool uh this is a clip from Arie looks like the Salt Flats and mine although
it's the same kind of Scenic empty background mine was a lot more overcast so you're not
getting those really harsh Shadows so if mine was like Ultra daytime like mine was almost High Noon
like Aries clip you would probably see even more of a difference the colors are just incredible
coming out of the arie35 in mine again this is the Rex 709 conversion you can see that my skin tones
look okay they have some color noise to them but everything kind of has a bluish tint it's it's not
the most color accurate thing in the world right but if we look at this Airy clip the horse's skin
tones look incredible if we look closely at the subject here the Reds of her um I don't know that
is called but like Sac or Satchel pack whatever on here the Reds the greens everything is the
separation between the colors is so abundantly clear even the blues of her shirt compared to
the blues of her jeans there's just so much color information that the average person isn't going to
notice but you're not going to notice because it looks like real life and that information
is so huge you know the blacks of my pants the the shoes those all look fine they're not too
noisy we're not getting any blocking the greens of kind of island in the background look good there's
there's definitely a huge Clarity difference in terms of lens again I'm using a 12 or 1300 lens
compared to a seemingly forty thousand or whatever uh price lens here's a ultra low light difference
and here's another great difference between the dynamic range when it comes to like fire elements
now I believe this clip was probably solely lit by the fire now my shot here was actually still
shot during the day it was pretty much blue hour the sun had just set a handful of minutes ago
what's the first thing that stands out to you on the bottom we can see that both her face is
perfectly well exposed and the entire flame is still within the data so if we jump in to mine
here you can see the Scopes at the bottom like those Flames are gone like there's no saving them
if I bring them all the way down they're still clipped that data just is incapable of being
captured at the exposure we were at if I jump to the area one let me get look at that all that data
is a thousand percent there all right so now we can dissect the first clip that I showed you guys
which I've already told you uh which was which but this of course is the array35s and this was mine
if we look at mine again it's well exposed nothing is crazy clipped both the Shadows are nice uh the
sun coming in on some of the Rocks kind of more harsh are still in and of course if we go to the
Airy one same story right like these trees that are getting direct sunlight aren't clipped our
shadows aren't crushed if we hop over to the rec 709 and make this a little bit bigger you see that
there's a lot of similarities but again we run into that like color issue that color noisy like
I don't even know if I'm saying the right terms if it has to do with bit depth or if it's just how
the sensor handles colors and it's color science like whatever that color issue is it's just
leaking all over the place everything down here the trees you know are like just crazy accurate
in terms of you know what a tree is supposed to be and a colorist can go in and greatly change
that here we're getting so much color spill from not my skin tones but it's bouncing off of other
Woods like this wood was not this shade of of red and you can see on this side of the tree it's very
green because this is it almost like is blending in to the background here even the out of focus
trees look at that clear distinction between like this is green foliage and this is a tree
here it's just like it almost looks like a ghosting effect that is crazy and finally
our last clip this is just a very clean portrait I can't tell if this is Studio or just really like
overcast day but we have that and then a shot that I did in the studio again this is not scientific I
had a dream effects filter on here so that is why it looks all glowy but this is very soft Studio
lighting as well and I just wanted to see how it converted with uh you know the lip texture and
the skin texture was very close between these two models and again if the project called to match
these two clips together I'm confident that you could do that very easily with matching skin tones
if you have if you wanted them to look like the exact same color lips all that stuff so what do
we learn from from comparing this seventy thousand dollar camera to a less than three thousand dollar
camera we learned that it's all about exposure set design line lighting basically every other aspect
of the image coming together to create the best possible image you can regardless of the sensor
capturing it yes when you have a camera that has low dynamic range it's going to make shooting a
naturally lit interior while also retaining the exposed exterior all in the same image much harder
you're gonna have to like light the interior with artificial lighting to try to match the Sun so you
may have to do a lot more to get the same image than if you just put the Airy 35 on a tripod and
hit record but it is possible to get incredible looking images regardless of the camera you have
if you focus on learning the fundamentals yes those budget cameras are still going to have
limitations which is why super expensive and super amazing cameras like the Ari 35 exist for the
people who do the work that justifies the cost but I'm incredibly happy with how my Blackmagic pocket
held up in most of these scenarios so what do you guys think that is the arie35 versus the pocket
6K Pro I would love to hear what you guys think down in the comments below and if you enjoyed this
style of video and want me to compare more cameras from ridiculous uh pricing differences let me also
know down there again huge thanks to film convert for sponsoring this video don't forget to check
out their links down in the description so that you can have one plugin to give a really unique
film emulation to all your footage thanks so much for watching guys I'll see you in the next one