Before we begin: This is not a scientific test by any means. I did my best to try and make things as equal as possible between the two cameras with the equipment I had. This video also isn’t going to win any cinematography awards, just me wandering around my yard hand holding a couple of cameras at the same time. It is what it is, I put it together because I know a lot of people wanted to see this.
I don’t own duplicates of any lens, so best I could do was put a 35mm Leica-R on the Komodo, and the Sigma 18-35 on the BMPCC. The Komodo has a bigger sensor, so I had zoom out on the sigma to around 30MM to get the same FOV. Also, the Leica lens is de-clicked, so the two apertures were probably never exactly the same on both lenses, just βclose enoughβ, the very first shot is an indication of this and not an indication that the Komodo has a darker image at the same ISO.
Far from perfect.
As you can see by the video of my janky rig, I tried to get the EF lens mounts as close as I possibly could to being on the same focal plane. Again, not perfect.
Color is straight out of the camera on both. I shot the highest quality RAW in both cameras. The Komodo is set to Medium Tone Map and Very Soft Highlight Rolloff, while the BMPCC is set to Pocket 6K Film to Extended Video. No post color was
done. With post color work both of these cameras can certainly look much better, but I felt using any kind of LUT that the manufacturer didn’t provide wouldn’t be fair, as that's not necessarily available to everyone with the camera.
Another thing that’s important to mention here, the Komodo is native 800 ISO and the BMPCC is native 400 ISO, so they’re not apples to apples at matching apertures.
I know which camera looks better to me, and I know which camera I'd rather shoot on for many many reasons other than image quality, but I'm just going to let the images speak and let you decide for yourself.
Hope this is helpful to everyone.
PS - the original file is available download in 4K side by side resolution. Also I made a typo on the last 3200 ISO shots, they were at 23.98 FPS, but I didn't feel like waiting on another 2 hour render