John Tipton

I almost always use the filter wheel and preset. After a while it's pretty easy to tell which wheel you need to be on if you are shooting in doc mode with no monitor.

I find the varicam preset to look pretty good generally.

If I do have a monitor and preset just doesn't look good, then I white balance. But, in my own personal subjective experience, white balancing doesn't always work. It often seems to make the image look even worse - so I go back to preset. Most of the stuff I shoot goes to tape to tape color correct anyway, so I'm less worried.

john

Any good guides on how to best use the WF monitor?

 

Thanks.

It's not too complicated, but I'm not sure where a good refernce might be found.

anyone?

john

I use the Panasonic LH-900p lcd monitor. I has a built in waveform feature which is REALLY useful. You can just pop it up whenever you want.

john