Hero 10 White Balance Test

[Manatee Diver]

Figured some people would be interested in seeing how well the new Hero 10 performs underwater.


First part is without a filter, you can see my flip the filter in place. The filter is a Backscattter Flip 8 version of the shallow filter.

Highest HEVC bit rate, colors set to flat, and low sharping in camera. Very minimal processing just recompression of 4k120fps footage, though Youtube processes it down to 60fps.

About 60 feet deep off of Jupiter, Florida.

My opinion the non-filtered footage is workable, but the filtered footage is still very close to what I would want.

I have more footage processing, but it will probably be a bit later before Youtube finishes processing it.

An older version of the same test with a Hero 6 in Cozumel.

 

[Jafo19D]

I just got the 10 but won’t see it until Christmas and won’t dive with it till January. I found this helpful because one YouTuber claimed that the 10’s white balance made filters almost obsolete; this shows otherwise.

 

[Hatul]

Figured some people would be interested in seeing how well the new Hero 10 performs underwater.


First part is without a filter, you can see my flip the filter in place. The filter is a Backscattter Flip 8 version of the shallow filter.

Highest HEVC bit rate, colors set to flat, and low sharping in camera. Very minimal processing just recompression of 4k120fps footage, though Youtube processes it down to 60fps.

About 60 feet deep off of Jupiter, Florida.

My opinion the non-filtered footage is workable, but the filtered footage is still very close to what I would want.

I have more footage processing, but it will probably be a bit later before Youtube finishes processing it.

An older version of the same test with a Hero 6 in Cozumel.

what was your white balance set to in your video?

 

[Manatee Diver]

what was your white balance set to in your video?

Otto pilot. I leave it on auto unless I am planning to run only lights.

 

[Hatul]

Otto pilot. I leave it on auto unless I am planning to run only lights.

In my GoPro 9 I've had very bad results on WB auto with Flip Dive filter, Cozumel footage. Perhaps I'll try the Shallow filter next time.

 

[Hatul]

I did various white balance experiments with my GoPro 9 footage from Cozumel. The red filter is not necessary and makes footage worse. I got good results with WB: auto, small video light, and correction of WB in PowerDirector. I point the paintbrush at something white like my fins and tell it to correct that to white/gray. Then I create a preset and apply the preset to the clips I want tp correct in my timeline. Of course I don't correct surface clips, only underwater clips.