Color and Lighting Cheat Sheet
Here are some tips for fine-tuning CCU settings.
What do you need to correct?
Make this adjustment:
The image is too dark
Increase Iris (lower F-stop value)
Increase Iris Gain
The image looks washed out or faded
Decrease Iris (higher F-stop value)
Decrease Iris Gain
Increase Chroma
Decrease Gamma
The subject is silhouetted against a bright
background
Enable Backlight Compensation
Colors look less vivid than they should
Increase Chroma
Colors look too vivid
Decrease Chroma
Highlights and shadows look right, but mid-
tones are too dark.
Increase Gamma
Shadows are too dark
Enable Wide Dynamic Range (WDR)
Decrease Gamma
The image looks grainy
Decrease Detail
Decrease Iris Gain
"Soft focus" effect; the image looks
unrealistically smooth
Increase Detail
Colors look wrong; white objects do not appear
white
Enable Auto White Balance
One Push White Balance
Disable Auto White Balance and adjust Red Gain
(decrease for less red, increase for less green)
Disable Auto White Balance and adjust Blue gain
(decrease for less blue, increase for less yellow)
Too much red
Not enough red
Too much blue
Not enough blue
Balanced
If you are adjusting for lighting conditions that are likely to recur, you can save your adjustments as a
custom scene.
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