White Balance Hints
 

Hello all:

Having only recently delved into DV by buying an XL-1s, I am struggling with white balance quite a bit.

The built-in settings for daylight and tungsten only seem adequate in some situations. A manual white balance on a white target (back-side of a Kodak grey card) results in far too cold (bluish) a balance, particularly in tungsten light. Thus I have experimented with some 82 gels, and I'm getting good results for tungsten now. But I'm still somewhat unhappy with what I was able to figure out for daylight.

I have read the "green to blue" thread in the general DV discussion, and will continue to follow it. I am interested in XL-1(s) specific tips, though... What are you experienced XL-1 and XL-1s users doing out there?

Any advice would be highly welcome!

TIA,

Ron

The advice from Canon to white balance on an 18% grey bounce card is excellent; this is an old pro photographer's tip. A lot of still photo principles apply to videography...

Bounce Card
 

where can you get this 18% bounce card. I card came with my portabrace backpack, would this be sufficienct? or do you recommend the card you use.
oh! by the way how is that svhs machine you got?

Most photographic stores.
 

You can find them at most, but not all, photographic supply stores. They are not expensive.

Nathan Gifford