CT-Rich
Contributor
When I started making videos I was using a GoPro camera with their limited quality editing software. I bought a red filter to use diving and was pretty happy with the results (except for the lack of image stabilization). After ruining/ losing two of them, I switched brand to the less expensive SJcam and bought some Corel editing software, but red filters I had are no longer useful and I started usin software to balance the color.
So my question is this: which is better, filter or software? Here is my logic and hopefully someone with a much more sophisticated and practical understanding will offer some guidance. A red filter works by cutting the amount of non-reds getting to the camera sensor and thus restores reds by not recording data about all the colors. I.e. You block a lot of light from the sensor. This makes sense from the days of film cameras because there were limits to what could be accomplished in the darkroom when editing film or making prints.
When recording video without a filter, you get a lot more light hitting the sensor but it skews heavily towards the blues and greens. The software balances it by bringing up the reds (for which there is less data) and bringing down the blues and greens.
I know somewhere out there someone who has done the massively anal amount of research to give a definitive answer. Any takers?
So my question is this: which is better, filter or software? Here is my logic and hopefully someone with a much more sophisticated and practical understanding will offer some guidance. A red filter works by cutting the amount of non-reds getting to the camera sensor and thus restores reds by not recording data about all the colors. I.e. You block a lot of light from the sensor. This makes sense from the days of film cameras because there were limits to what could be accomplished in the darkroom when editing film or making prints.
When recording video without a filter, you get a lot more light hitting the sensor but it skews heavily towards the blues and greens. The software balances it by bringing up the reds (for which there is less data) and bringing down the blues and greens.
I know somewhere out there someone who has done the massively anal amount of research to give a definitive answer. Any takers?