A tungsten WB shooter.

[James Mulholland]

Hi Everyone,

So i'm reading that shooting at 3200k drains the blue channel and leaves the image noise? thing is I have in nearly all projects I have Dp's always shot Tungsten I preferred the look and if I wanted more colorful image I would stick an 85A filter on the lens, but very very rarely shot Daylight.

So with the Red One Mx native Wb being Daylight I was wondering is how do I still get the blueish daylight look etc. Do I need to get a filter like 80D (off my head I think thats right), or should I shoot at Daylight and then in Post change the color temperature? Or If I'm shooting a night time Int scene with a Tungsten balance should I gel the lights for blue and in post correct them to what I want?

What if Shooting at iso 800 with RC 48 at Tungsten would that help?

Thanks

James

 

[Nick Gardner]

Switch the Color temp to 3200, shoot away and be done with it. The whole "noisy blue channel you need blah blah dur" is from a thousand years ago. I shot an entire movie on tungsten back on the M sensor and it looked great. I shoot tungsten all the time on MX. The thing that will get you is under exposure. If it's freaking dark, put up some lights. It's not a mysterious magic box. Make the picture on the monitor look like you want it to look. Iso 800. Done and done. It's much more like shooting negative than any other vdeo camera because you can get away with murder in post as long as you exposed well in the first place. Have fun ;-)

Nick

 

[James Mulholland]

Thanks Nick thats good to know you have shot with it. Now I'm ready for it to arrive

 

[Steve Sherrick]

I agree with Nick. Once you get familiar with the RED MX sensor and know how to fill it's pixel pool, tungsten isn't much of an issue. You have to be careful of clipping individual channels but there are plenty of tools available for dealing with that on set.

One interesting little footnote which I'm not sure everyone is familiar with. When RED first bought Ren-Mar Studios, a ton of tungsten lighting came with the deal. I know Jarred utilized a lot of that lighting back then so that tells you a little bit about their comfort level with Tungsten, especially with newest color science.