{"product_id":"ccd-2004-dctl","title":"OW Sensor Archive No.01 — CCD 2004 DCTL","description":"\u003ch2\u003ePoint, shoot, 2004.\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe colour of a mid-2000s CCD compact camera, rebuilt for modern footage, together with the camera itself. Punchy, saturated colour, deep blue skies, vivid yellow-greens and the hard, bright highlight clipping of a small digital sensor. The digicam look that Gen Z brought back, made with the precision of a cinema grade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat you will notice\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA steep, video-like tone curve with deep blacks.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHard digital highlight clipping about three stops above mid-grey, so bright skies and windows burn to clean white.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClean, neutral whites rather than a warm film cream.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSaturated reds and oranges, deep blue skies instead of cyan, and bright yellow-green foliage.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSkin kept natural inside the punchier palette.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eThe camera, not just the colour\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eInput Profile\u003c\/strong\u003e: built-in transforms for 15 inputs, from Sony S-Log3 and ARRI LogC to Apple Log, DaVinci Intermediate and Rec.709.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSensor Softness\u003c\/strong\u003e: the slightly soft, low-resolution rendering of a small sensor.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDigital Sharpening\u003c\/strong\u003e: the crunchy in-camera sharpening halos around edges.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSensor Noise\u003c\/strong\u003e: fine luma grain plus coarser chroma blotches, strongest in the shadows, moving with your footage.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eVignette\u003c\/strong\u003e: gentle corner fall-off.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDate Stamp\u003c\/strong\u003e: the orange seven-segment date in the corner, with your own year, month and day.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLook Strength, Exposure, Saturation, White Balance and Highlight Clip\u003c\/strong\u003e to tune the colour.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow to use it\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSelect your input.\u003c\/strong\u003e Apply the DCTL to your log footage and choose its profile under Input Profile. In a colour-managed DaVinci Wide Gamut project, choose DaVinci Intermediate.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBalance first.\u003c\/strong\u003e Set exposure and white balance before the DCTL.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eApply CCD 2004\u003c\/strong\u003e, set the Look Strength, then add as much texture and date stamp as the shot needs. The DCTL outputs Rec.709 Gamma 2.4.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eHow it was developed\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCCD 2004 was built by measuring a set of photographs from CCD compact cameras made between 1998 and 2008, including Canon IXUS and PowerShot, Sony Cyber-shot, Fujifilm FinePix and Nikon Coolpix models: their highlight clipping, tone curve, saturation by brightness and the hue of skies, foliage, reds and skin. The result is an original look that reproduces those characteristics on modern log footage, working on scene-linear light after a published-specification input transform for each camera.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eBest suited for\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMusic videos, fashion and social content with a Y2K feel.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTravel, party and holiday footage that should feel like a found memory.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFlash-lit or harshly lit scenes, where the hard clip looks most authentic.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBright daylight with blue skies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eRequires DaVinci Resolve Studio. Sample images: OpenEXR test images, © Industrial Light \u0026amp; Magic.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OFFWHITECOLOR","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55401687974226,"sku":null,"price":29.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0819\/7344\/4946\/files\/CCD2004_split.webp?v=1794320302","url":"https:\/\/offwhitecolor.com\/products\/ccd-2004-dctl","provider":"OFFWHITECOLOR","version":"1.0","type":"link"}