The Perfect White Balance Solution for Digital Cameras and Digital Video
http://www.expodisc.com/
Anybody is using this on DVX ?
http://www.expodisc.com/
Anybody is using this on DVX ?
White Balance Solution
- Thread starter AKundeti
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Re: White Balance Solution
It seems a lot simpler to use a white card for white balancing. I do remember occasionally using a white transluent lens "cap" that came with older Sony field cameras for white balancing, but I think a white card balance was usually more accurate. It seems like the company is trying to repurpose the Expodisc, which was mainly used to turn your still camera into a very unwieldy incident light meter.
It seems a lot simpler to use a white card for white balancing. I do remember occasionally using a white transluent lens "cap" that came with older Sony field cameras for white balancing, but I think a white card balance was usually more accurate. It seems like the company is trying to repurpose the Expodisc, which was mainly used to turn your still camera into a very unwieldy incident light meter.
Re: White Balance Solution
The cap would measure color balance based light hitting the lens area. It is often the case that your subject will be in an area that has mixed light some daylight, some tungsten, so my guess is that it would be much more accurate to place a whitecard in the area... plus >$100 for white balance? Much better spent elsewher, if you ask me.
The cap would measure color balance based light hitting the lens area. It is often the case that your subject will be in an area that has mixed light some daylight, some tungsten, so my guess is that it would be much more accurate to place a whitecard in the area... plus >$100 for white balance? Much better spent elsewher, if you ask me.
Rush
DVXuser Sponsor
Re: White Balance Solution
Sorry but I have to agree, I have never heard of a professional DP or camera op white balancing anywhere but in the lit area, rather than where the camera is tucked away, which could be several feet from the lightsource. I would go big, and get a $2 white poster board from walmart. ;D
Sorry but I have to agree, I have never heard of a professional DP or camera op white balancing anywhere but in the lit area, rather than where the camera is tucked away, which could be several feet from the lightsource. I would go big, and get a $2 white poster board from walmart. ;D
J.R. Hudson
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Re: White Balance Solution
Now I'm going to be over-budget.
Now I'm going to be over-budget.
Walter_Graff
Carbonite Member
Re: White Balance Solution
Well I am a professional and the other day I used someone's white sneaker. These things like this disk and warm cards are a waste of money. I can produce much more accurate and a variety of balances off a woman's t-shirt and have something nice to look at at the same time.
Well I am a professional and the other day I used someone's white sneaker. These things like this disk and warm cards are a waste of money. I can produce much more accurate and a variety of balances off a woman's t-shirt and have something nice to look at at the same time.