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We are sure many of you have recorded underwater video, with this camera, and don’t understand why the colors can be off or completely wrong. It turns out Sony’s industry leading A7Siii camera has a major design flaw with its Custom White Balance setting affecting underwater film making. Sony is actually changing your manual custom white balance setting, while filming, and frequently doing it incorrectly. The flaw is so egregious it has complicated our underwater filmmaking and destroyed countless recordings we could have used to produce our KZfaq channel. Sony has confirmed that they are changing your manual custom white balance during filming, often switching to color reproduction suitable for land and not underwater, often making some colors completely wrong. It makes no difference what color profile you use. In this video we will show you clips from our and a channel subscriber's Sony A7siii of the abrupt, flawed, color switching that occurs. We will also show you an alternative camera feature, in action, that we now rely on to adjust white balance. Without this setting we would have had to sell thousands of dollars worth of Sony based camera equipment. Watch the video and find out what that feature is and see it in action. If you have purchased this camera we urge you to use this feature.
This was our first experience with Sony support. We went to extremes to help Sony including: sending recordings, suggesting firmware changes, getting other underwater film makers to help test a potential firmware update. Despite our efforts, Sony's lack of response made us feel like they were giving us busy work to go away while at the same time harming our ability to produce content. Based on our experience, should we continue to use Sony? We would love to hear your comments.
What is most important is that these tech videos help you and so until Sony fixes their custom white balance problem we recommend that you use this alternative Sony A7Siii feature to get better underwater recordings with this camera. It helped us tremendously.
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0:00 Introduction
0:37 Follow up from last video
2:39 The Custom White Balance Design Flaw
4:43 Sony's Response and our Solution
7:15 Sony A7Siii Underwater Auto White Balance in Action
8:49 Summary and Recommendation
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Cameras Used to Film:
Sony A7Siii
Panasonic GH5s (Tech Intro, Cooper's Barge)
IPhone 12 ProMax
Divers:
Ivana Dillas
Lucia Podlipny
Zack Richardson
Presenter, Underwater Cinematography, script, editing:
Rich Schwerdtfeger
Underwater Videography,:
Rich Schwerdtfeger
Chris Thielen
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Music:
Heliolingus - Ooyy (Epidemic Sound)
Pale Blue Garden - Ethan Sloan (Epidemic Sound)
Spring Garden - Sacramento Horizon (Epidemic Sound)
Sound Effects:
Epidemic Sound