Specifications
It is interesting to note that the Rec709 gamma option preserves as much of the highlight headroom
of the camera footage as any of the log-style options. This is perhaps counter-intuitive if you have
experience working with RAW capture in still photography, or Cineon log scans of negative film where
RAW and log typically have the ability to recover more highlight information than finished JPEGs or video.
With the RED footage, the Rec709 Gamma option will look dark (assuming ISO 320 lighting), but it does
appear to preserve the highlight information recorded by the camera.
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Figure 5. The video-centric
Gamma options Rec709 and
REDspace™. (We repeat the
Cineon reference line to ease
comparison between the figures,
although this is less relevant for
the video-style curves.)
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