strange yellow tint on the camera playback - help please

egosbar

Senior Member
agree , i wonder why ive never heard of this , i have studied over the last month or more so many video tutorials on all aspects of photography including wb of course and never heard this mentioned
 

egosbar

Senior Member
i guess its something to be wary about when shooting under fluoros , at 1/50 all images were the same , at 1/60 there were slight changes and at 1/125 there were slight changes

its in the memory bank , i guess its shoot at 1/50 or use low bounce fill flash
 

nickt

Senior Member
I have been curious about this recently so I did some quick test shots. I used 1/30, 1/60, 1/200, and 1/400 shutter speed. I used auto white balance, but I did one additional set with white balance manually set to fluorescent. No difference that I could see between manually setting white balance or auto. I tried another set (not shown) with manual exposure, no noticeable difference. I don't think the fluorescents go dark like some led lights will if run on a rough power supply. I also tried a series (not shown) on my kitchen fixture. Same type bulbs as the shop light, but last year, I replaced the ballast with a new electronic ballast. No color variation over the burst at 1/400 shutter and auto wb was fine.

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Manual WB:

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egosbar

Senior Member
peace of mind for me my camera isnt stuffed it had me worried , i saw no difference in any of the non auto wbs , just shoot at 1/50 or 1/60 , in australia it looks like 1/50

what i cant understand is thats it not talked about a lot
 

everprentice

Senior Member
Fluorescent lights flicker at a rate sometimes our eye can't discern but sometimes evident if you look using liveview

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