Posted by Larry in AZ on 05/10/06 16:09

Waiving the right to remain silent, richard <nomail@butterfly.net>
said:

> We have recently aqquired some Z1's after using PD170's for 3 years.
> We immediately noticed the Z1's look cooler, or rather, after using
> both side by side, the 170 seems artificially warm by maybe a couple
> of hundred K. The funny thing is, we shot a grey scale test card
> side by side, and on playback, can't pick the difference. How can
> that be?

It's called "masking" or "matrixing" of colors. You won't see it on a
monochrome image, it's activated only when there are colors.

If you can, turn it off.

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Larry Jandro
Video Engineering & Equipment Rentals
Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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