flickering/overexposed footage shooting outdoors

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R Kumar

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This weekend I shot an indoor event with my new XH-A1S in manual mode. It was a celebration in a hall with 200 people, lasted 6 hours and had a mixture of tungsten, flourescent and dance smart lights towards the end. I only captured a few hours of highlights and after watching the tapes today, I am quite happy with the results as I was able to balance my exposure and zoom/focus with good clarity.

That being said, I have also been shooting various things outdoors and have noticed that some of the footage appears to have flickering, or shifts in and out white, almost looking overexposed. It almost looks as if the camera is in automatic mode trying to auto-focus. It was most noticeable while shooting into a forest of trees and leaves on a sunny and cloudy day.

I've tried a combination of turning on the ND, fast shutter, closing the aperture, using negative gain and I still see it. Am I missing something here with the setup or filtering?

I am interested to hear how you experienced shooters setup for bright and reflective environments with your xh-a1s, thank you!
 
Sounds like you may have auto white balance, focus and possible auto gain turned on. I'm not sure how familiar you are with your new camera so I apologize if you've already checked this... putting your camera in "M" manual mode does not turn off auto focus, gain, or white balance. You have to turn off the individual switch(es) manually, in addition.
 
Thanks for the reply!

I shoot in manual mode and I made sure the manual focus switch was turned on, and auto gain was turned off....in the menu I configured my gain settings for -3, 0, +3.

The AWB was set to on.....should I be white balancing for outdoors or using the PRE daylight setting? I haven't tried adjusting the Kelvin temperature yet for this purpose. What do you guys recommend?
 
The indoor and outdoor presets work, but not all the time by any stretch. If for example, you're in a shadow of a huge building and you set it on preset outdoor, the image will probably have a blue tint to it (at least thats been my experience). You can however shift the preset indoor and preset outdoor by 10 unknown units. If it's in the middle of the day and you've got direct sunlight, go for it, but I have always dialed it in using the degrees kelvin, always.
 
Thanks for the tip!

I solved my supposed overexposed issue.....it was my deck that was showing my captured footage incorrectly. When I captured the footage on my PC it was sharp with no blowouts or flicker.
 
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