Fixing the colour settings on the Sony A7III

A few people have asked what settings I use on my A7III ... so here they are. The Magenta is intentional - this is unedited footage and I've found it easier to fix too much magenta than too much green :D

My Gear:

[DaveMcKeegan]

The over Magenta is intentional - this is unedited footage and I've found it easier to fix too much magenta than too much green :D

[oriomenoni]

There's too much magenta in your settings for my liking.

[LudoHunt]

This video helped me breathe in because I spent my budget in the Sony 7riii and you helped me not losing my mind, thank you

[adamszuszkiewicz]

Had the same issue; nasty green and yellow tint on everything. Can't believe that the autumn leaves color profile setting would fix it just like that. Bless you!

[atamanphotography]

for my taste the magenta could be a little less but in general I like the contrast and sharpness setting better on your settings

[OliverParker]

I learned a lot about setting white balance, using Picture Profiles, getting exposure correct from the Leeming LUT Pro corrective LUT package and found Picture Profile 10 - HLG 2 and setting custom white balance with a proper 18% grey card and using zebras for getting correct exposure to give the most stunning and accurate results in the widest range of situations on my new a7iii.

The tiny cost (£1.50 on eBay) of a proper neutral grey card for setting custom white balance is so worth it if you want accurate colours and skin tones, far better in most scenarios than trying to guess it yourself.

[reggietjahjadi]

I've been using canon since 2008 and just switched to sony A7III like 5 months ago, and from my point of view Canon's skintone color is much more natural IMO. I find A7III highlight is way too strong, if i tone it down it'd be dull. I know Sony has a lot of color profiles but i just feel Canon's color is so much easier to edit.

[nodavood]

On Canon, I usually put the white balance on "Shade". I like the warmer tone. No camera has the perfect color settings out of the box. It depends on your use and taste.

[sunnyschramm]

great video! the autumn-setting plus you optimization looks really good.

Did you try AWB:White instead of AWB:Standard or AWB:Ambi, it fixed a lot of green/yellow color cast for me...

[dreamerycollective]

Thank I just got the a7iii a few days ago and the green was driving me nuts!!! This helps so much and makes me feel I was not crazy lol

[hazelvee]

Yes I agree you put a bit too much magenta in it. Maybe 1 point would have sufficed. I just get to know my camera and have not tried out adjusting the colour yet. Just switched from "standard" to "neutral" for now. But like you I will definitively go the same direction to fix as much as possible in the camera already. Getting rid of the green touch is way too much work in post.

Keep it coming 🙂

[JetBen]

You should try some of the Cine profile, they are good for video work and they look pretty good straight out of the camera :)

[FotosyMas.]

I hope jumping through all these hoops to get the colors right is worth it for Sony shooters. I know this is something I didn’t want to deal with so I sold my Sony gear and kept the Canons. I love the tech in the Sonys but in the end a quick workflow and ready-to-go skin tones is more important.

[TimothyGordon]

Thank you so much for taking us through your process and explaining it step by step, the cuts to the A7iii UI was super helpful for me.

[TheNYCndn]

Do you have another video detailing step by step how you found those settings? Like where did you start?

[WizardOfCheese]

ello from the UK. i know you've heard this comment a million times but i do think you need to calibrate your monitor, your tweaked profile adds way too much purple (maybe half the amount you are adding?) i know you say its easier to correct purple but heres the thing, each time you add a wash of colour (which is essentially whats happening) it desaturates certain colours and degrades your image. my advice for this green issue is to use HSL and up the yellow hue towards orange instead, since you like the autumn preset thats kinda what it does to greens anyway. on my screen the flo-daylight preset looked almost spot on btw.

[LukeHolliday]

Great video!! I've been using standard s-log 2 (exposed +2 stops), but then I'm doing an S-log to ARRI log-c to rec.709 conversion in Resolve. The colors seem to come out more natural that way. I have plenty more testing to do, but so far it's looking great!

[georgekrats]

for photos.PP off. creative style - clear.set your WB with a WhiBal G7 card and then correct color by going 2 clicks left and 2 down, or use auto and 2 clicks left 2 clicks down.

[artmaltman]

Excellent ideas, I've not realized that some of these settings even exist. Thanks!