Thank you for watching the 2021 Fourth of July Ferris Wheel Light Show and the
Fireworks Celebration at Santa Monica Beach. This is the world's first 12K 3D 360 footage
captured by the brand new Kandao Obsidian Pro beta unit. The settings I used are
ProRes 422 HQ in HLG mode, REC 2020. As you are watching now,
the extreme low light potion of the video is in Aperture F2.8, ISO 800, and shutter speed 1
over 30. The video is still very clean, without color noise or sensor noise. This is something
you don't see in any 360 camera - including the Insta360 Titan. You can refer back to my
last 4th of July fireworks video captured by the Insta360 Titan for comparison. Link right here.
The sunset part is in auto exposure, used Kandao official conversion LUT back to REC 709. Sunset
usually is very challenging to capture on camera without good dynamic range. I think
Obsidian Pro did a very good job, comparable to a cinematic camera like RED or Blackmagic.
The color still needs some works straight out of the camera. As you see
in HLG Log Mode and the official LUT result.
I hope they continue to improve color science in the official unit to remove the RED-ish look.
Although, this 3D 360 camera, as you expected, suffers from parallax issues and has lots of
optical flow artifacts in 3D stereoscopic. It is one of the worst. This is due to the
distance between each large APSC sensor. I stitch this video using Mistika VR,
which just released a new update that supports Kandao Obsidian Pro natively.
But Mistika VR won't be able to stitch this camera due to the large parallax issue.
Lucky, Kandao announces their depth map base stitching algorithm, similar to Google Jump,
to adjust this large parallax issue. It will be released with the official unit and addon
to Mistika VR. When I have the software, I will restitch this footage to show you the improvement.
My official in-depth review of the Kandao Obsidian Pro is coming next.
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