Konica Minolta DiMage A1 transferring videos

Oli5 wrote:

neilt3 wrote:

It would look grey/blue because your filming in the shade .

You can see the line of the shadow on the road , whereas if you look over the road where the sun shines , it's a nice warm light .

It's the same on any digital camera , you need to correct the white balance .

Yours is set to either sunny , or most likely automatic ( AWB) .

Go into the manual settings and change it to "Shady' .

It'll warm it up and improve it no end !

If the "shady" setting turns it too straw/yellow coloured a milder setting is needed , so set it to "cloudy" .

What looks best depends on your camera and personal taste .

If you need the colours to be 100% accurate , you can set a custom white balance off a neutral target . The old tarmac should work .

This is an android phone so it doesn't have 'shady' or 'cloudy" as an option. I will have to play with WB.

When you say set it off the tarmac - you mean off the road surface?

Just checked on my phone , your right , it doesn't seem to have WB control on the movie mode . Just on photos .

You'll need to change it on a movie editor software on your PC afterwards .

Yes , tarmac is the road surface . If your in America , I think you call it asphalt .

If it's weathered so it's on the grey side instead of a solid black like when freshly laid , you can use it like a grey card . In your video editor software , if it has an eyedropper function for WB , click on the road surface in the shade with the car and it should correct everything for colour castes .