"Guy" <nospam@thanks.com> wrote in message news:FxI_a.3389$z7.557531@wards.force9.net...

> > I color balance almost everything in post. It is rare to get the WB just

> right

> > in the type of work I do while shooting, using the gear I use - and it can

> be

> > done so easily and so much more precisely in post, with so few ill effects

> > (assuming that it is close in the first place...;-) that I see no reason

> not to

> > shoot more freely, correcting that last bit of error later. If the image

> is far

> > off color (as in, nearly monochrome), good correction is not possible, and

> > it will show ill effects from the effort (like increased "grain").

> > --

> > David Ruether

> I thought you used Sony VX2000s or PD150s. Why can you not WB correctly?

>

> You don't shoot on auto do you?

Yes - this is the only practical method for quick-shooting in

multi-colored environments (and the results are close to correct

most of the time, with the hue bias used [most would call them

"good enough" - but some of us are particular, so we do some

correction in post to make a better product...;-]). BTW, I've

rarely been happy with MWB results (unless using a decent

monitor) - the AWB (or DWB) is generally better with these

cameras. The recent exception: shooting in a large church with

a combination of daylight, tungsten, florescent, and (as the primary

source[!]), sodium-vapor. Here the blue-green biased MWB of

these cameras with a white sheet helped to get good color when

the AWB gave me strongly red results. With dimmed tungsten

plus candles, AWB or TWB with strong hue bias gets me close

enough to balance well in post. When you are moving fast past

open doorways (blue), stained glass windows (red/blue),

tungsten-lit (orange) or florescent-lit areas (green), or moving

into and out of daylight (afternoon, evening, or dusk - or even

night), using MWB makes no sense, and will guarantee more

off-color footage than using AWB will... For some idea of the

range of lighting challenges a wedding can present, see:

http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/wedding9.html

http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/wedding10.html

http://www.David-Ruether-Photography.com/wedding11.html

for about 50 frame-grabs from one of my wedding videos.

I would have spent much of my time white-balancing, instead

of shooting what I would have missed...;-)