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Red faces
Hi there: I was lucky enough to get some custom setups from the Varicam engineer when I bought my Varicam a couple years ago, but I’m not enough of an engineer to confidently go in and just twiddle knob to make adjustments. I’ve noticed however, that faces look a little redder than I like. It’s pretty consistent whether in sunlight or artificial lighting. Can anyone recommend an internal adjustment to take a little red out of faces?
Kevin
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3 Replies
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I use the RGB gain for quick color correcting. Try removing some red, and see if you like the effect.
Chris Bell
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It could be anything from matrix settings enriching skin tones too much, or colour correction over compensating. I have used the AWB offset function in the Option menu to overcome some consistant lighting artifacts when shooting doco’s, that may be turned on as well with an RGB setting.
To work out if it is any of those three things, try turning off those functions in the menu one at a time and watch your monitor as you are doing it. It may even be a combination of of two or three of these. You can turn off matrix and colour correction in either of the L,M, or H “gain” custom settings in the menu. -
Thank you, gentlemen, for the fine advice. I went thru the camera, and now have a range in which to work.
Kevin
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