Seeing red: Is my new DVX whacked?

[PaulK]

I just got it today, and I'm really excited.

But, after reading the manual, I fired it up, and the EVF and LCD shows everything with a strong red hue. I tried fiddling with the EVF Color Levels in the menu system, but to no avail. Being it's nighttime right now, I can't see how natural light looks. But the LCD on my cheap digital single-shot camera doesn't show everything indoors as red.

Anyway, I've got that sinking feeling one gets after spending thousands, waiting weeks, and then wondering if I need to get another one. If this is normal, would someone please tell me so I can get some sleep? :'(

P.S. My house lights are all of the standard 40 and 60 watt incandescent variety. I don't have any neon lights to compare it to.

Thanks!

[Tim_Mayer]

Did you white balance?

[GlassSidewalk]

Check to see what your white balance is set to, daylight 5600k or tungsten 3200k. If you are set to 5600k and shooting under tungsten balanced lights everything will look orange to even red if the temperature is low enough, under 3200k. Film a candle while balanced to 5600k and it will look red.

Hope thats your problem.

[PaulK]

Oh, duh. I hope that's it. Thanks guys, I'll check it out.

[PaulK]

That was it.

Sorry to waste forum bandwidth on such a dumb noob mistake.

Thanks again for both of your responses. At least I can go to sleep now. ;)

[GlassSidewalk]

no worries, enjoy your camera....

[Tim_Mayer]

It happens to everyone one way or another... ;)

[GenJerDan]

Just remember it...in case you ever want to do it on purpose. Lots of interesting things come of errors.

I'd love to shoot a film with color infrared stock and use household tungsten lighting. The people (the caucasians, anyway) will have dark green skin, but everything else will look more or less normal!

Dan

[J.R. Hudson]

LOL

Can you imagine the horror of not realizing that its a simple white balance and all of the imagery looks like crap!? Aggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!