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Evaluating the footage

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Evaluating the footage

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- All right, Rob, let's take a look at some footage here from the Olympus camera. - Yep, and this is one of your favorite cameras. - Yep, and I'm going to show you a handful of things here, both actually some stills and some video because I mentioned that I really like this as being a camera for doing both. So it held up pretty well. - And these are obviously processed images. - Yep, but on the right here we have got some of the raw footage, and I always like water shots. I find that this is a great way to really test what's happening. - Sure. - I think it held up pretty well with the shadows and the highlights. The rock here coming through a little muddy, but this is outdoor lighting. - Yeah, I find that, and maybe it's just me, I find that this is one of the drawbacks of hybrid type cameras, is how it reproduces blacks. They tend to do a pretty good job, relatively good job of mid-tones, okay job on highlights, but sometimes the blacks, as you pointed out here, get a little muddy…

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