Last week I installed the Peau 3.97mm f/2.8 lens on my CGO3+. During normal daylight conditions the photo's are very sharp (better than the standard lens). But when taking a photo facing the sunset, the corners of the photo turn light. I took this photo with a Polar Pro ND4 filter (ISO 100, exposure 1/160, auto white balance).
Anyone experiencing similar issues?
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NEVER NEVER NEVER use AWB. I don't even understand how it's an option on any camera ever.
If there is any variable on a camera that should be locked to something it's white balance.
All white balance is is a lock on something that can be changed if it's wrong. But if it's on auto and it's wrong, unless you are willing to sit for weeks with the footage and keyframe the color correction, you are screwed.
It's easy to fix a bad white balance. White balance to black balance is simply a barometer with which to take your camera and tell it where the deepest whites are and the deepest blacks and it figures out all the other colors based on that. Ideally what you would do is use a perfect white board and balance to it. But if there is anything that can be fixed in post, it's white balance but if you are on AWB, you lose that ability. If you're after point and shoot type of stuff, than by all means, choose the auto shutter speeds, ISOs, and if you are using a DSLR or better camera, your f-stop but AWB is something that is on every UAS and it's the one thing that it should NEVER be on, because the colors often change when you turn around all of a sudden the lighting has changed because he sun is at your back than your head. It might seem like the right thing to do, but you are talking about the difference between correcting after that turn or as a could comes by, a tree is over you, or whatever. This is the one thing, ok a lot of things, but this is a big thing that makes me nuts with these cameras (Phantoms, Typhoons, Q500s, Mavic, whatever). There is never a time where it is okay to use AWB. If you get the balance wrong, it's as simple as finding the whitest white in your image or blackest black and selecting it to correct it. Can't if it's in auto because it's constantly changing.
I know this is old and not even on topic but I just wanted to let you know since I read it. Ask any photographer that is a good one and they will tell you the same. If they tell you otherwise, they are wrong. This is as non subjective of an opinion as you can get. Of course it's just an opinion, but so it wearing your seatbelt for safety in the front of a car. I am sure you can come up with a reason not to, but in general, it's a good idea.
Be well.
Adam