NTCLOGc – Alternative c-log Custom Picture Style for Canon C100/C300

To ensure that you can use all Picture Style files, download the latest version of Digital Photo Professional from Canon's Web site. With Digital Photo Professional Ver. 2.0.1.4 for Mac OS X, saving the multiple RAW images in a bach-processing is not possible with the images Picture Style file applied.

NTCLOGc – Custom Picture Profile

This is an alternative to the renowned Canon-Log (C-Log) Custom Picture Profile for the Canon C100 and the C300.

NEW: Added the downloadable CP for the Canon C300 (special thanks to Alexander ‘Bobo’ Boboschewski for the C300 support!). This is a slightly improved version of the original C100 CP with better color representation, Vectorscope-calibrated, very nice colors, but still in beta state. Try it out before shooting projects with it.

Download CP for Canon C100 & C300

NTCLOGc Custom Picture Profile [zip] Beta Revision B for Canon C100

NTCLOGc Custom Picture Profile [zip] Beta Revision F for Canon C300

The name of the CP explanes as follows: NT NTown, CLOG c-log gamma & c-log matrix, c means color-corrected (n would mean neutral) and a additional capital letter at the end means that the CP is BETA (version A-Z) and the final version does not have this additional ending letter.

The CP is in it’s test-phase and BETA. But it looks pretty good right now and gives really great vivid colors when graded.

Main difference to the original C-Log is a corrected white balance, a modified color-matrix which gets rid of that slight greenish tone in C-Log and correct black & white levels ranging from 0-100% (unlike original C-log which was ranging from apx. 10-110%).
Skintones will also improve with this CP. They are much more pleasing and nicely showing all color-nuances the face is reflecting.
This CP can be greatly graded with vivid colors and deep shadows. In the video below I pushed the overall saturation to nearly 200% and in addition to that I increased saturation in midtones to apx. 120-140% and the material responds wonderfull the this very intense grading which has pretty deep shadows but retains all the highlights. I used Speedgrade to grade the clips which are recorded with Atomos’ Ninja2 using the DNxHD 220x 10-bit codec which is very clever when interpolating the 8-bit output (or is it more?) of my Canon C100!

When using NTCLOGc The correct exposure for for skintones is around 70%. The exposure is correct if faces and the general image looks brighter than normal. In grading just lower the overall gamma curve to compensate the image brightness distribution against the c-log curve and if you like just add saturation and/or set the tone to you liking.

The image below shows the difference between the original c-log the the modified NTCLOGc:

slide over the image to see the difference

I mentioned the problem with the rised black levels and super-whites in an earlier article and think this is a good alternative CP to the existing c-log Custom Picture Style.

Try it out, test it. Examine it’s skintone behaviour and tell me what you think about it.

I’m working on a range of new Custom Picture Profiles for the Canon C100/C300 so stay tuned!

The movie below is shot entirely with the new NTCLOGc Custom Picture Style recorded in 10-bit with Atomos Ninja2 in DNxHD 220x and graded with Adobe Speedgrade.

This is a growing article with regular updates, so check back from time to time.

Custom Picture Profile Settings