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Paul Waters · 03-07-2009, 03:07 PM

My cam is a SONY VX2100. 3 chip.

It has not been touched for six months. Today I take it out to test it, and I am getting a magenta colour cast.

This carries through when I play back a new recording.

Old recordings are fine.

I figure I have to take it back to SONY.

But any techies have any thoughts, please lay them on me. I prefer to have some knowledge before going in

Thanks

tony286 · 03-07-2009, 03:11 PM

did you white balance?

DeanCapture · 03-07-2009, 03:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paul Waters

My cam is a SONY VX2100. 3 chip.

It has not been touched for six months. Today I take it out to test it, and I am getting a magenta colour cast.

This carries through when I play back a new recording.

Old recordings are fine.

I figure I have to take it back to SONY.

But any techies have any thoughts, please lay them on me. I prefer to have some knowledge before going in

Thanks

Have you tried changing the white balance settings? Point it to a white wall and do a custom white balance and see if that cast goes away....

You may have it setup to white balance for fluorescent lights which record on video as green. The way to correct that is for the camera to add magenta (the opposite of green). So your white balance may be setup to add magenta for a fluorescent lighting situation.

Paul Waters · 03-07-2009, 03:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tony404

did you white balance?

Checked that. Good idea, but not the solution.

I also get green banding. I am guessing the blue chip is the problem.

Paul Waters · 03-08-2009, 10:26 AM

Bump.

Still hoping.

SGS · 03-08-2009, 01:50 PM

Going back a long way we had a problem with one of those going between a green / magenta cast and I think that was a ccd issue.

DirtyDanza · 03-08-2009, 02:10 PM

wow I got thousands of hours on my 2100 never heard of this... they are pretty robust cameras I rarley use mine anymore now that we do all HD but id send it to sony... they will have it back to you within a week

seeandsee · 03-08-2009, 02:22 PM

that's bad

03-07-2009, 03:07 PM	#1
Paul Waters Confirmed User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Toronto, Ontario Posts: 4,402	Camcorder Techie Question My cam is a SONY VX2100. 3 chip. It has not been touched for six months. Today I take it out to test it, and I am getting a magenta colour cast. This carries through when I play back a new recording. Old recordings are fine. I figure I have to take it back to SONY. But any techies have any thoughts, please lay them on me. I prefer to have some knowledge before going in Thanks __________________ Paul

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