AXIOM Alpha

Smart Dynamic Range Mode

For those of you who may not be aware, our image sensor features an HDR mode called "Piecewise Linear Response (PLR) Mode". This essentially means that you can add two knee-points to the response curve already inside the image sensor, achieving a more logarithmic shaped response curve closer to film negative - with a substantially extended dynamic range in the highlights. Adding knee-points to reduce clipping is common in image processing, however the essential difference here is that not only does it alter the image data after it has been captured but also whilst you are capturing it. As we can save the applied knee-points positions / parameters together with the footage, we can fully reconstruct the linear colour data in post production. Here is the first test we have undertaken with this feature (there are many knobs for tweaking - and we've only just started turning them):