MANUAL WHITE BALANCE ON NEX series camera's

[frozenwarp]

Hi all,

Have been playing around with the Sony Nex-7 for the past month and been loving it but having problems setting manual white balance underwater, can do it no problem above water but doesnt matter what i use white card, grey, sand or bluewater it just sais error and sets at like 9900K.

I realise that this wont matter when shooting raw but i am mainly interested for video.

thought this was just me but a friend who has the Nex-5N is having the same problem, any thoughts?

anyone having better luck then me???? If so How?

thanks in Advance

 

[Nitro91]

i use my dive slate when i did set manual wb. make sure it focuses and the white takes up most of the frame. sometimes i got that error if it didnt focus.

but now because i use a strobe i just set the white balance to 5000k, same as the strobe output.

 

[frozenwarp]

i will check the focus more carfuly next dive.
Unfortunately setting the temp to that of my strobes doesnt help video, with the photo's i can just set Whit balance in post production but not as easy with video

 

[ScubaMoMo]

I have the same exact problem on both my Nex5 cameras and couldn't figure it out yet.

 

[kkfok]

9900K is already the highest temperature value. How deep did the error happened?
What would happen if you do custom white balance at depth like 10-15m?

 

[frozenwarp]

That was only done at depths between 5-10 meters

 

[bryce1993]

Howdy.

What underwater housing are you guys using for the sony Nex-5?

Cheers.

 

[kkfok]

That was only done at depths between 5-10 meters

You may consider to ask for his opinion, I asked him the same question a month ago but he said the white balance was set somehow despite the error.
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[BigJeff]

This happens with my A55, and no doubt will happen with my A65.

The value is still registered and used, it's just outside what the camera expects in "normal" use.

 

[Nitro91]

my housing is the nauticam.

with the strobe and WB set to 5000k, no problems at all.

if any, i just do small amounts of editing with lightroom.