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This far north of the Arctic circle in mid-January the sun only just rises above the horizon, but that means you have golden hour light all day and the sun rises are spectacular.
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For this shoot I used the cameras Cine-EI mode shooting 4K RAW on the R5 and HD Mpeg2 (XDCAM® HD422) internally on the SxS cards. To get nice clean and noise free images I used Cine-EI to rate the camera at 800 ISO. I find that I still get plenty of over exposure headroom at 800 ISO and after grading the images have less noise. To make exposure easier I use the 709 (800%) LUT on the viewfinder output as this is easy to expose by eye. Basically if it looks right in the viewfinder the RAW will be right. I also use the cameras waveform monitor for checking my exposure levels, I have this assigned to the number 3 assignable button so I can pop it on and off as desired. At -30ºC the camera was still working well. I have the LCD viewfinder and this was getting a little sluggish and the pictures in the VF a little smeary, but I knew from experience that this is normal and to be expected. The only other issue was the hinge on the flip up part of the viewfinder would make a quite noticeable creaking noise when moved. But other than that all was good. 118