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Hi,
I came across your post just now, thanks for sharing.
About the filters: I used a flip-in orange filter when I filmed with a Sony Camcorder. That worked very well in the shallows, but from about 10 meters on I didn't use it anymore, because it started to look quite unnatural, especially the water which turned purplish. But I did not use manual white balance.
So how good are results deeper down, say 20-30 meters, GH5 with a filter plus manual white balance? As the filter cannot be removed during the dive, I'm looking for something that works at basically all depths.
Thanks,
This looks like a still frame with strobes not a video?View attachment 555397 At deeper depths it is important to have lights and a manual white balance. This was a depth of 50 meters.
This looks like a still frame with strobes not a video?
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It a still frame shot with video lights no strobes. Same settings as if shooting video.
At 25-30 meters neither white balance nor filter work as there is no red or orange left and you need to use lights
Ok, I put my question wrong: between 10 and 20 something meters: how does the GH5 manage a reasonable color result (manual WB) with a filter? From my experience, below 10 meters filters make water look unnaturally purplish (which makes footage basically useless), so really good manual white balance seems required. The point to me is: with a GH5 setup you can't flip a filter in and out, so you have to be sure the camera can handle the filtered image really well.
Hi,
I came across your post just now, thanks for sharing.
About the filters: I used a flip-in orange filter when I filmed with a Sony Camcorder. That worked very well in the shallows, but from about 10 meters on I didn't use it anymore, because it started to look quite unnatural, especially the water which turned purplish. But I did not use manual white balance.
So how good are results deeper down, say 20-30 meters, GH5 with a filter plus manual white balance? As the filter cannot be removed during the dive, I'm looking for something that works at basically all depths.
Thanks,