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Is there anyone who can colormatch (special red) a G1 and G2. G1 is making a propper red color but G2 make a lousy red.

I have had this exact same issue with our Ursa Broadcast G2s. Primary red tends towards megenta (i.e just plain awful), despite white balancing and much adjustment using the ATEM Camera Control Panel. Whereas my Canon PTZ CR-N500 and Sony FX9 nail primary red with practically no adjustment, aside from white balance.

LouisBacker wrote:I have had this exact same issue with our Ursa Broadcast G2s. Primary red tends towards megenta (i.e just plain awful), despite white balancing and much adjustment using the ATEM Camera Control Panel. Whereas my Canon PTZ CR-N500 and Sony FX9 nail primary red with practically no adjustment, aside from white balance.

Hi Louis (and others that have the same problem)
Could you please mail support about the issue, because they tell me that I could ajust it with the ATEM Camera Control etc. Im quit convinced that its not possibly. I want Blackmagic to create a LUT who match G1
Best regards
Lars

My G2 made this artist's red clothing pink...



Studio Camera 4K G1 for reference:

Håvard Njåstad wrote:My G2 made this artist's red clothing pink...

Yep, your photos illustrate perfectly our identical colour problem.

Did you turn off gamut compression?

Good Luck

Hi,
same problem here. Fujinon HA23x7,6BERD lens on G2. It's annoying problem in broadcast. We can't always use the camera as we would like.
We are still looking for any solution - maybe some LUT?
Turn gamut compression on/off didn't solve the problem
I think we have already tried everything possible and impossible.

One suggestion might be to color correct your "reds" in Davinci, save it as a Lut and load
it in your Broad G2