User's Manual

Grids
Your video assist features three types of framing assistance.
Thirds Thirds are an extremely powerful tool to help compose your shots with two
vertical and horizontal lines placed in each third of the image.
The human eye typically looks for action near the points where the lines
intersect, so it’s helpful to frame key points of interest in these zones.
Crosshairs The ‘crosshairs’ setting places a crosshair in the center of the frame.
Like thirds, the crosshairs is a very useful compositional tool, making it easy to
frame the subject of a shot in the very center of a frame.
Center Dot The ‘center dot’ setting places a dot in the center of the frame. This works in
exactly the same way as the ‘crosshair’ setting, albeit with a smaller overlay
that you may find less intrusive.
You can enable a combination of ‘thirds’ and ‘crosshairs’ or ‘thirds’ and ‘center
dot’ by tapping both options in the ‘grids’ menu. ‘Crosshairs’ and ‘center dot’
cannot be selected together.
TIP An actor’s eyeline is commonly framed along the top third of the screen, so you
can use the top horizontal third to guide your framing. Thirds are also useful to maintain
framing consistency between shots.
False Color
The false color feature displays color overlays on your image that represent exposure values.
The color values correspond to optimum exposure settings, for example pink for lighter skin
tones and green for 38.4% middle grey. False color is also helpful to know when shadows and
highlights are near clipping or clipping.
With a range of tonal values on the LCD at once, this gives you a broader overview of
your exposure which you can use to refine lighting on set, or make exposure changes
to compensate.
15Changing Settings