AC90: Color matching Canon 60D & Panasonic AC90

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metalshooter

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Hey Guys,

I've got a some multicam interviews that I'm shooting next week and will for the first time be attempting to use both my Canon 60D and my AC90. I haven't had a ton of experience with color matching and was wondering if anyone could offer any tips?

I assume because the AC90 has the more sophisticated image controls that I will want to match the 90 to the Canon 60D.

I'll have access to a studio at my work along with a reference monitor and colour charts. Will I need anything else?

Appreciate any insights!
 
Just a quick update, I spent some time in the studio on Friday and played around a bit. Was a bit of a crap shoot I must say it basically consisted of alot of trial and error and alot of loading footage into FCP X and checking out the colour scopes and luma. Not perfect but I think I got them pretty close. Some interesting notes out of the color matching, the 60D tends to underexpose considerably (based on the internal metering system). Whites were barely hitting 70-80, even "overexposing" by 2 stops barely got my colour charts white square to 100.

Another thing to note, not sure if this has something to do with the scene settings but I noticed that the AC90 was tending to overexpose. Having my zebras set to 100 on the camera I'd open up on the color chart until I just barely saw some lines on the edge of the white square, brought it into FCP X and sure enough the whites were sitting around 105-110. Perhaps I'm missing something here (Had Auto Iris value set to 0, although I was shooting in full manual anyways) Either way not a huge deal, it's good to know the tendencies and bias of the cameras, it was certainly a learning experience and that is what it's all about!

Below are a few quick JPEG exports out of FCP X to show my results. It's certainly not a perfect match but I'm happy with it for what I'm doing. You'll notice that the AC90 is slightly sharper overall. I should note that I kept detail and v detail both at +1 as I prefer the look. Manual white balance was performed on both cameras immediately before the footage was shot.

Also apologies that the shots aren't framed identically but I only had access to a single tripod and wanted to shoot the scenes at exactly the same time as I was relying on natural/shifting light.

60D_sample.jpgAC90_sample.jpg
 
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