white balance?

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hi eveery time i use my dvx 100a at night indoors it looks red , if switch the white balance settings it turns blue i just want it to look normal withought the red how do i change that i just turn it on and it automatichaly goes to red?
 
are you using the black button next to the lens on the left side. its the lil black rubber button?
 
I've got an HVX but I believe this should be similiar - you should have preset, A, and B for your settings. Also a button (HVXs is just around the corner from the switch). When in preset mode the button will toggle between daylight and tungsten presets. A or B mode, the button will auto white balance to the what is being shot. The idea being that you would use a white card to balance against in A or B setting. The A and B are there for storing to seperate balance settings in case you should want to switch back and forth. The manual has more info on this that may or may not be clearer.
 
Exactly, you've got to manually set the white balance, and you should do so whenever you move to a different environment, so get familiar with it. It's simply zooming into a white balance card (or anything white), and pressing a button. The switch is where you "store" the white balance info for quick snap back to a particular setting; It doesnt manually change it. Try that first and if the red's still there, you know thats not the problem.
 
It shouldnt matter, white isn't recorded with the lens, but with a white balance sensor on the right of your camera.
 
The M2 and normal 35mm lenses don't change the color of the image, however you would want to white balance through the lens you are using to shoot to get the most accurate color rendition. So whenever I use the M2 and change 35mm lenses, I perform a white balance through the current lens setup before shooting.

Setting the white balance can be more complicated with a 35mm lens adapter because you can't use the camera's zoom button to zoom in on a white target or you'll lose the back focus. You can use a 35mm zoom if you are shooting through a zoom lens. But with a fixed lens you pretty much need to have someone hold a large white target and then direct them to step forward until the target fills the frame. I don't worry too much about focusing the 35mm lens for the target -- the important thing is to fill the frame with white before setting the white balance. Under changing lighting conditions, if I have the focus set already for the scene, I won't refocus at all to set the white balance.

If you are using colored glass filters, remember to set the white balance without the filter and then add the filter afterwards. Otherwise the camera will compensate for the color and reduce or eliminate its effect.
 
I usually stick to a preset whitebalance whenever I shoot a controlled enviroment. I know this limits me from using a number of settings in the SCENE FILE menu, but I like the idea of using the preset whites (3200 k and 5600 k) as different "filmstocks".

Most of the time this gives me a whitebalance of 5600 k, both ext. and int.
I then choose whether to colorcorrect my tungsten lights with gels or leave them uncorrected for a warmer look.

(I do like to desaturate my image a bit in camera, thus making the whitebalance less of an issue)

For interiors I like to expose for the light from the windows (even if its natural light), in most cases this method gives the practicals a warm tone, but they don't spill (dirty) tungsten light into my 5600 k set.

just my 0,00002 cents
 
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