The app Makayama Flat Color Camera was released last month. This software is a new iPhone app to shoot flat color profiles to prevent over-exposure in highlights, create options for color correction, reduce blow-out in highlights, extend the dynamic range, and deliver better control over color tones and subtle details. The “Flat Color Camera” App is available for $5,49 in the App Store now. Let’s take a closer look at this new app. Makayama Flat Color Camera – From Grading to Post-Production (Credits: Makayama, Amsterdam, Netherlands) While all the post-processing of the frames from the sensor usually takes place inside the iPhone – when using the Camera App – and the user can only alter the result within stringent limits of the consumer-grade H.264/HEVC coded footage from the iPhone, Makayama presents users with an attractive new solution. Flat Color Camera – Profiles and Recording Options Although an iPhone is an phone and not a “proper” cinema camera, the app now allows the user to record video in 5 flat color profiles: CINE, M-LOG1, M-LOG2, M-LOG3, and OFF. Curves of the varying Makayama proprietary M-LOG’s have not been available to me so far. The user is further able to select from HD or 4K resolution with each 24, 25, or 30 fps. The press release also points out that exposure, ISO, and also focus are automatically adjusted when recording with the app. Why the user is unable to set the focus point individually remains unclear to me as of this writing....
Published By: CineD - Monday, 15 June, 2020