HPX170 Colour Problem - Red Tint

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eric@faultline.tv

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Hi there,

Today I was out in the woods with my HPX170 shooting some large tree's for a short doc I'm working on. I was re-planting my tripod, and the next time I looked at my camera, the colour on screen was very very warm, very red. I thought maybe I was just crazy so turned it off, moved on. I didn't shoot anything until later in the day at sunset. I was shooting the sun reflecting off some mountains, not very red in real life through my eye, but on camera it looked like it was this huge... glowing sunset. It wasn't.

Ive never had any problems like this before. I tried messing with the white balance, changing my scene file WB etc.

Anyone know what could be happening?

-ep
 
David Jimerson said:
What's the color temp setting in the scene file?
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It was at -3 or -4 when the problem started, however I moved it all around on location to try and fix the problem.

On another note, I was looked online a little bit after posting this. I found someone with an HPX500 that had a problem with his 5200k WB setting. He claimed it was a "bug" that lots of other people had.

I then did a test with my cam inside, I put both the A, and B WB setting at +7, and switched between the two, and I got two different looks out of the cam for each. A being the red I was getting before, and B was the normal look. So I'm guessing thats where the problem is.

Good thing is, I still have one setting I can use I guess. As I'm currently on a doc shoot.

Anyone heard of this "bug" or had this happen to them?

-ep
 
Are you saying you were in preset mode and then had a + something on top of that?
That would certainly warm things up.

Shoot 56k outdoors and confirm correct color temp on footage.
There is likely nothing wrong w/ the camera.
 
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