Camera Line Up
- Adam Barrett
- Murray Basham
The objective of this line up is to colour balance the 3x Studio cameras to ensure that each camera is colour balanced with the Studio Lighting on the set.
The difference with these Studio cameras is that they need a White and Black balance.
| Wheel out the 3 cameras and 'park' them along side each other. See picture. This avoids any parallax error when zooming in on the Line Up chart. Zoom each camera in until the arrows on the chart are at the edge of the Viewfinder display |
| The Line Up Chart has a series of Black to White strips that the cameras need to shoot, so that each camera can have it's colour imagery adjusted to give a technically correct picture out. A colour balance! The cameras are setup by Zooming and Focusing on this static chart, so the arrows on the edge of the chart are at the edge of the Viewfinder, when the picture is framed. The picture to the left shows 2 of these arrows pointed out with white ones. |
| The three CCU's for each of the cameras are located within the Control room at the Technical Directors position |
Camera viewfinder showing chart lined up for camera checks. | Cameras viewfinder showing the framing of the chart
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 Firstly check that the Gain and Black knobs are set to its detent position.As shown in the picture above.
| The Camera Control Panel or CCU panel is shown - far left. This is located in the Control Room at the Technical position. To do the White and Black Balance for the cameras, ensure that the Red and Blue knobs for the Gain and Black are in their Centre position. The Green control Do not adjust the Green Gain or Black knob, as this is always left in the detent position as a reference to the other 2 controls |
| Adjust the Iris and Pedestal controls on the CCU until the chart is 'exposed' as shown on the Waveform Monitor - left For more information on setting levels for the waveform monitor, to carry out the 'color balance' on all 3 cameras. Please see a MCASI store specialist. |
  | Once the Waveform displays the picture as shown with the Iris and Pedestal levels, First press the Black button. after it goes through its own settings and adjusting the image, the output from the camera will re-established. Then press the White button. |
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