I love these discs but please consider this important note: When using these expo discs you should be aiming your lens AT THE LIGHT SOURCE(s) hitting your subject while placing the diffusion disk over the lens. This gives you the average color temperature of the combined light hitting your subject. Your method is reading the light behind the subject. This worked ok in your scenario because you were outdoors and the light is fairly even from all directions. This won't work in other scenarios, like for example if your subject has a colored backdrop behind them. Your camera would then white balance on the colored back drop.
While your method definitely seams to be working for you, I've heard it is a more complicated process. 1 - determine the placement of your subject and camera. 2 - take your camera and stand next to your subject. 3- aim your camera back where you will be taking the photo / video from, cover your lens with the filter, and finally snap the white balance reference photo. That way, your camera has averaged all the light that will be hitting the surface of your subject. 4- go back to where your will take the photo from and begin shooting. Lots of steps, but very accurate reading.
To be honest my steps just were: 1) Light your scene and place your camera where you want to start filming 2) take the white balance. That’s it. I never aimed the camera backwards (from the talent‘s position back to where I‘m filming from) like you mentioned. Why would this be necessary? Thanks for commenting!
@@foxesofthenorth yes that sounds correct. Of course the little plastic thing doesn’t magically measure the correct white balance, it just diffuses and mixes up all the colors of the scene you’re pointing your camera at. So if you have a set where the background is totally different from your foreground, it wouldn’t work very well.
One thing to keep in mind is you only want to do this with the keylight on. If you’re using different temps to light background / hair light etc then it’ll average out those different temps.
@@romdunn3022possibly but it depends, as usually the backlight/hair light etc won’t be shining on the white card - it’s typically just the key shining on the white card, but if you’re angle on the card is off, or if you’re using a coloured fill light then yeah you’re right it’ll be the same issue. The main thing is just to keep in mind that if you’re shooting in mix temps then you want to make sure you know which light you want to appear more neutral and take your reading from that.
Yeah, that's why I always shade my monitor when outdoors - at least to set white balance [what I prefer to call "color balance"]. I've been a video and TV pro for 25 years and believe me, setting a "correct" or accurate looking white balance even on professional video cameras in the late 1990s and early 2000's was often a GIANT pain in the butt [due to limitations of video sensor technology]. All that struggling did help me develop a fairly well calibrated eye at least. I'm SO glad modern cameras have so much more capability and flexibility regarding color balance :D@@RonaldKasper
@@RonaldKasper I can’t remember, I just used it again today and it white balanced just fine, perhaps I had it too close to the lens when I was doing it at first
Do you use this filter to set WB with the camera pointed towards the subject or from the subject pointing towards the light source/Camera position? I'm curious what you would recommend because I've heard both.
The problem is when you habe multiple lightsources in your shot with different colors. In this case you want to set the white balance for your subject and you habe to point the camera against the keylight. If that’s not the case I had good results when I just pointed at the subject
Could you tell me what it looks like in the back? Is it white or it's the same color and material? I wanna know if this Is it the same with ExpoDisc where the flipside of it is somewhat translucent white?
I got a question : did sony release an update for the fx6 with the same white balance option as the Fx3 ? (Oh and moving your camera in front of the the white card is not a good option since you're not going to have the same amount of light bouncing from the card to the lense wether your close or far)
I‘m not aware of an update where the white balance method of the FX6 is the same as on the Fx3. Have you heard of one, this would definitely be interesting
@@RonaldKasper i want to transfer clips without cable. In LAN with FTP server. From thumbnail full menu you can order witch clips to transfer, but now the problem is that the menu is LOCK. I want to unlock the menu and do the transfer in LAN, may you tell me how? Thank you in advance, Ronald!
Hi! I couldn't find the exact same thing but here's a US-Link to something very similar. www.amazon.com/Kiorafoto-Professional-Correction-Temperature-Calibration/dp/B01B4GT7VG/ref=sr_1_2?crid=Q9I4GLQPMNZ6&keywords=white+balance+filter+jjc&qid=1686893461&sprefix=white+balance+filter+jj%2Caps%2C165&sr=8-2
