chromatic aberration seems missing from most all movies and TV shows. How?

[glen]

Seems like CA is almost unavoidable, but somehow all TV shows and movies, don't seem to have it? Better lenses? Digital reduction? more deliberate shooting so as to avoid the conditions for it? It is there, but I didn't notice it?

 

[slashbinslashbash]

Most CA is only visible as a pixel or two. You have to be zoomed in 100% to see it. At 1080p, it's not big enough to notice. Not to mention, the picture is hardly ever static, and besides that, due to the encoding algorithms I think you'll notice compression artifacts along those edges long before you notice CA.

 

[fetoma]

Definitely better lenses, just like the amateur stuff.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Any pro outfit will be able to control for CA in much the same way as you can with still images in Photoshop. In addition, the lenses pros use are better than most people use. Also, a pro photographer/videographer knows to avoid situations like bright backlighting that exacerbate CA. Finally, as has been mentioned, the effect is only a couple pixels wide so unless you zoom in to 100% or nearly so you won't tend to notice it anyway.


Brian

 

[shortylickens]

If it were there at all, it would be easy to correct with post processing. Nowadays thats not so difficult, even for a weekly tv series on a budget.

 

[SecurityTheatre]

Seems like CA is almost unavoidable, but somehow all TV shows and movies, don't seem to have it? Better lenses? Digital reduction? more deliberate shooting so as to avoid the conditions for it? It is there, but I didn't notice it?

CA affects LARGE aperture lenses and is only visible at HIGH resolutions.

Most video is shot on smaller aperture lenses (due to smaller sensor sizes in digital media), as well as on lower resolution (1080p is extremely low resolution 2MP by digital stills standards).

Finally, CA mostly affects extremely high contrast scenes, which most video cameras handle more poorly than modern DSLRs and hence video productions avoid this type of contrast.

This combination of three factors would pretty much eliminate it, I wager.

 

[Scooby Doo]

Also video is usually constantly changing so you can't sit and stare at it long enough.