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Canon XF300 Sky Detail Issue
Howdy. I recently upgraded from an XH-A1S to a XF300 in January and I’ve consistently had a very specific issue with it. Even though the camera is (to my knowledge) set entirely to manual, and nothing in the foreground will change in terms of exposure values, the sky detail will rapidly change to gray and back as objects move across the screen. I recently had this seen by Glazer’s in Seattle and their video camera person is on leave, so they suggested that I post in the forms (I’m cross-posting elsewhere) since I was not able to find any information about this online despite now months of looking. I’ll attach a couple of screenshots to show how the image is changing as the train moves across it. It’s usually *just* the sky detail that changes, not anything else. I’ve also factory reset it twice now and the same effect happens. Is there a sky detail setting that I am missing in the manual?
I’ve attached a google drive link to the .mxf file of the attached screenshots, that should be uploaded within the next half hour. Thanks!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11OapuMmScOSxNfrddfcqYBbYn7ns3T6Y/view?usp=sharing
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5 Replies
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Hi Kacey,
The XF300 Is a pretty old camera, about 15 years old. I would suggest that you go in to the set up menu and see if the previous owner played with the camera’s image. Some owners tweak the color matrix and how it reacts for certain scenes. I believe there are some youtube videos about this.Marc
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I checked, and since I had factory reset it, the custom picture settings were off. Is there anything else that this could be caused by? I can take some pictures of what the camera’s switches are set to if that’ll be helpful.
And I’m aware that it’s old! I wanted a digital version of the camera I had used for 13 years in order to have parity with my older footage 🙂 Works well for documentaries that I’ve been capturing footage for for over a decade.
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If you want to post the pics, I’ll look. I never used that camera though. I have used the XF405, XF705, XF605, XC10, XA15, XA40, and XA50, but they were all from a different generation of cameras. I believe your XF300 is MPEG-2 based files, and the ones I use are MP4, using different color science and compression.
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This is what everything is set to as of now.
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You have the gain set to whatever you have “M” set for. Gain can do funny things to the picture, if you don’t need it. What is your white balance for “A” set to?
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