AC160 Auto Tracking Whitebalance ATW

mickee13

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Can someone explain what ATW can do that Variable white balance cannot. Interview under flueorescents, using VAR white balance I could not get the color temp to look proper, I dialed every color temp there is manually with VAR and it just looked wrong. I flick on ATW and bang, perfect color temp. I flicked back to VAR and tried dailing it in again....not even close? The manual is a little vague on VAR saying to only use as a reference etc. I was excited about this feature, but upon using I'm not sure it's worth much. Maybe just that particular lighting. I use the kelvin setting on the GH2 and seems to work really well.
 
I need to look into this VAR feature. I would love to dial up my own color temperature... can you do it while recording?
 
I need to look into this VAR feature. I would love to dial up my own color temperature... can you do it while recording?

Yes you can adjust while recording using the function directional button up/down.....but so far my results have been not close to accurate. ATW is a surprise though, on the DVX100 I found it unusable, but on this cam it's been dead accurate so far.
 
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