Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Sony 4K color balance out of whack?

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Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 08-21-2016, 10:24 PM:

Saw Hell or High Water at Regal Valley River in Eugene today. Sony 4K presentation, #12.

The color balance looked very very wrong to me. Overall magenta tinge, flesh tones wrong, certain colors popping out like they're Hot Red or Hot Lime Green. It just looked very unnatural. Like a TV in need of a calibration.

Are these Sony projectors shifting color gamut with age and can no longer be calibrated accurately? Or are they just poorly set up?

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-22-2016, 02:53 AM:

Prob giving up, or color space needs adjustments.

Buzz is that REG will be yanking out these Sony Baloney units for Christies in the near future.

Posted by Carsten Kurz (Member # 5396) on 08-22-2016, 07:29 AM:

David - did you complain to the manager there?

- Carsten

Posted by Paul H. Rayton (Member # 1817) on 08-22-2016, 08:45 PM:

I saw the same show at a local Laemmle theater over this past weekend here in SoCalif. The color balance was fine there, with nothing to complain about, certainly nothing **way** off like you were seeing. So I'd say the evidence points to the problem being with the location there, not the production itself.

Posted by David Stambaugh (Member # 1102) on 08-22-2016, 08:57 PM:

I didn't complain. The trailers also looked similarly "off".

Posted by Monte L Fullmer (Member # 2797) on 08-23-2016, 01:17 AM:

Now, if this was an issue with a DLP unit, then I would easily say that a macro used for AUX input devices was used instead of macros assigned for regular DCP presentations...and maybe so with this SONY unit if it had those said AUX macros and were used instead of the assigned lens macros.

AUX devices uses a different color space than used for the DCP content to have the AUX content presented correctly.