Hello,
I had this problem a few years ago and I know it will come up again on my next shoot: I am making instructional videos about a coffee machine. The machine has a blue LCD which shows the time, info, type of coffee, etc.
Whenever there is a shot of the blue digital display it reads really horrible. The blue color is super unreal looking and the text in the screen is completely unreadable.
I am shooting with a Sony ex1r. Does anyone have any suggestions? I thought about shooting with a polarizer, or messing with the shutter speeds but I'm at a loss.
Thanks in advance!
weird results from filming a blue LCD
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Re: weird results from filming a blue LCD
This is probably due to the use of a blue LED as the backlight source. Blue LED's emit light well into the ultra violet spectrum and this intense UV light causes problems for most cameras. As yet I don't know of any fix for this. It also occurs with blue and purple LED lights used for stage lighting.
Re: weird results from filming a blue LCD
You could try cutting a piece of CTO Gel to fit over the display if it can be done neatly.