System information
You could use the image as-is, but if you wanted to do any color grading, the clipped levels would quickly
become a problem. For example, if we bring the levels down in post, the water just gets darker:
This is because traditional video is "display referenced," which means it is made to be shown directly on a
display. No levels outside the monitor's range are captured.
Capturing a wider dynamic range in the scene would provide more levels to work with when we're doing
color grading. That's exactly what S-Log is designed to do.
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