color temperature of HDTV's

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Lkorver

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I'm shooting an industrial video next week. In the master shot we have the presenter and an HDTV, I'd like the color temperture of my lighting and the HDTV to match. I know my Toshiba LCD HDTV is daylight balanced, and I would assume most are daylight balanced as well. But since client is unable to tell me yet if they are using plasma, led, or lcd I was wondering if anyone had any experience lighting with these monitors in mind.

Just want to make sure I rent the correct lighting, tungsten or daylight.
 
The older CRT TV's seemed to be cyan while all I see coming from the LCD monitors and TV's is blue which you should be able to compensate for by adding yellow on the units.

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Chris Santucci said:
The older CRT TV's seemed to be cyan while all I see coming from the LCD monitors and TV's is blue which you should be able to compensate for by adding yellow on the units.
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Really? That would be great if I can just crank up the yellow on the TV and not have to change all might lighting to daylight! Is it that simple, just boost yellow on the TV and watch the monitor off the camera to see when its properly calibrated? I'm going to test that right now actually. thanks!
 
If you're thinking you can use tungsten, I'm not sure how close you'll get with the match of the monitors, but add yellow and red in equal amounts if you're looking to match to tungsten.

Let us know how close it gets. The monitors are much closer to daylight color than tungsten.

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Test! Test! Test!
For this type of thing you need to build prep/pre-light into your quote, then test backwards and forwards to make sure you get it right.

If the customer balks at a technical test of equipment like this, explain why it needs to be done. ----> "Or else I end up on an internet message board, and you may not get the results you are seeking..."

I know this is harder with the lower budget jobs, and customers who don't understand the process; but on the "big budget" jobs I used to produce this prep was agiven.


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thanks for all your info guys. The shoot went really well. Lit the scene with daylight gelled lights and it looked great without having to change the color settings on the TV.

Having a television with backlight or brightness adjustment came in handy since it helped in matching the TV exposure to the exposure of the rest of the scene.
 
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