7D Picture Styles - for TV
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Hi, it depends how much you want to post. I shoot (5d, but 7D - similar) Neutral - lowest contrast, lowest sharpness, -2 saturation. This keeps contrast low, and dynamic range high for post processing (curves/levels/color balance). I've done this for tv productions and works well. It needs to made broadcast safe in the end as well. Most important is to get exposure and whitebalance as close to what you want in camera. If you want a picture style that's usable without post, I would still lower the contrast but maybe sharpness 1 above the lowest setting. Personally I think the incamera sharpening is crude and creates halo's = ugly. I'd rather have a more soft artifact free look, 35 film also does not look 'sharpened'. Be carefull with sharpening in post though you might end up sharpening noise and h264 artifacts. The 'superflat' picture style you used I've used as well, sometimes creating more noise in the shadows. It seems to push the shadows a bit too much.