Nice video man. I do majority of my work in Classic Chrome. Overexposing is actually very common with digital sensors in the film industry. It’s basically a standard nowadays and is usually done with cameras that have the exposure latitude to do so; primarily for the sake of reducing shadow noise. This is an essential step that really helps pro colorists do their job to the best of their abilities. Many cameras are able to expose at least 1 stop over without clipping the highlights nowadays, depending on the lighting conditions. At DR 400, you can protect highlights more, overexpose and get incredible results with minimal shadow noise. As an XH2 user and colorist, this is my go-to after playing around with different methods. Outside of flog, the DR400 algorithm inherently provides more dynamic range - not sure it’s possible to *maximize* dynamic range without it (i.e., at dr 100/200). I’d recommend trying it out. I watched your video in the description, perhaps you tried underexposing with DR400 (which would create more shadow noise since the algorithm only affects highlights) and that’s why you didn’t get the results you wanted? I mean, in your case, DR100 would have less shadow noise when underexposing since you’d be at a lower ISO value. Your results are great regardless, love your work

I've found for my sunset/golden hour shots the results come out wayyy better switching from flog into a cp and like you say underexposing. Glad to see I wasn't the only one!

Your channel is excellent dude. I used to only do photography, apart from filming myself for talking head KZfaq videos. But I wanted to become a hybrid shooter which led to me buying the X-T4 and your videos have been super useful in learning videography.

this videos is great! i just used your Classic Chrome Profile for one backstage recording... and those tips will be very helpfull in the future! Great video, great content! and please do a video showing how you expose and set the tools that guide your exposure! Cheers from Brasil!

This is great and really helpful! We definitely need that video on exposure tools!

Thank you for this informative video. I need to start looking into film emulation video. I always film in f log, but i always love classic chrome color. Thank you John. Big fan. Sending love from Thailand

New to the fuji ecosystem! And my mind is blown that you can still recover shadows from classic chrome - great video!

This is a very helpful video. Thank you. God bless!

wow the video quality / shot/ background - this is crazy good!! I would love a video on how you Made this video!

Thanks for your videos. Here are two silly questions: When do you color grade? How do you grade all of your cut clips in a smooth workflow? I love getting into the edit first but find that grading becomes tedious to make sure each cut clip has the same grade the other clip has. My question really centers on when you think its the right time to grade, before the edit or after and what has worked smoothly for you. Thank you for your work and insight.

Would you use this same technique if there are people in the shot? Does it affect skin tones etc? Cheers!

What level of zebras do you use?

So when you shoot in Chrome or any other sim, do you have all the settings set to zero? Highlights and shadows

The beard is going strong 😂

Is this using DR400?