18Working with LUTs (Look Up Tables)
For decades, producers with serious ambition for their projects shot on film. There were only two reasons why anyone would choose a video camera over a film camera: 1) money—videotape was much cheaper than film; and 2) speed—video gave you immediate results. You didn’t have to process and then transfer the film to begin editing. The reason people shot on film is clear: the images video cameras captured were far inferior to film. Video just didn’t have the dynamic range. You could see detail in the shadow area, but the highlights would be blown out; or you could see detail in the highlights, but the shadows were just black blobs. With film you got detail in both. Videotape had a dynamic range of only about ...
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