How To White Balance A Logitech Camera

White Balance: Get better colour from your webcam

In the video here you lot'll see examples of using Auto White Rest and Manual White Balance with the Logitech C920 WebCam.

White remainder is the photo and video term for colour balance.

If the colour is counterbalanced properly,then it will look natural and neutral, and you won't have any colour casts.A color cast is when there is a very dominant tone in your photo or video. Wait at the kickoff photo in the series below. Information technology has a "cool" or "bluish" color cast to it.

When you start shooting video and learning about colour, you may not notice colour casts. This is considering our eyes practice a lot of correcting for us. But when you put images and videos side past side, it's easier to see. Over time you will tune your video making skills, and exist able to spot a colour bandage correct away.

If you're using a regular camera (instead of a webcam) yous tin set upwardly an "in camera custom" white balance. That is what I do when I'm shooting with my other cameras. But with webcams you don't have that choice. So you take to do white balance manually, or if you're lucky, your Automobile White Rest feature volition put you shut enough to neutral.

Do some of your ain tests kickoff

When you first set upwardly your webcam, try using the Auto WB setting and record a test. If it doesn't look quite correct, and so arrange the White Rest slider in the web cam'south app. I'g demonstrating the Logitech Camera Settings App for Mac, simply the Windows version will also have a white balance adjustment. Wait for it. Experiment.

Here are my tests from the video in a higher place

From the tests above, yous can meet that Auto White Balance was skillful enough in this instance.

For comparing, I've recorded examination videos using my reckoner'south built in webcam, and information technology does a terrible job on auto white balance, so you'll have to exam for yourself. If yous desire to see HOW terrible, you can run into samples in this web log mail.

What does Automobile White Residue (AWB) do?

When you are using AWB on Any camera, the camera takes all the color in the frame and tries to neutralize it. Sometimes AWB works bully. But sometimes information technology doesn't. If it doesn't work for you, then apply one of the apps to make white balance adjustments.

In my video and photography work I utilize a white balance tool, such every bit the X-Rite Color Checker for video.

Here'south the color wheel

The colours of photography and video are:

Scarlet, Green, Blue – also known equally RGB
And their opposites, Cyan, Magenta, Yellowish – aka CMY

white balance color wheel

Contrary colours neutralize each other. Note the warm and absurd colours that are opposite each other.

Red – Cyan
Green – Magenta
Blueish – Yellow

That'southward why in the video in a higher place I had to be mindful of getting too much yellow added, due to the solid blue background. It helped that I was wearing a shirt with some white in it, and my pilus and confront are warmer colours, so the epitome area was just about 50% blueish. That was probably plenty to keep it from making my face likewise xanthous.

If I shot this on a yellow background, the opposite would have happened – my skin tone could have gone blue if I was using Automobile white rest.

The Mac version of the Logitech Camera Settings app, doesn't accept a lot of control over colour. But it might simply aid you out of a bad color state of affairs.

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