User's Manual

Manual Focus Adjustment
When you want to adjust the focus on your camera manually, you can use the focus
adjustment located at the bottom of each camera controller. Drag the wheel control left
or right to manually adjust focus while viewing the video feed from the camera to
ensure your image is nice and sharp.
Camera Gain
The camera gain setting allows you to turn on additional gain in the camera. This is
important when you are operating in low light conditions and need extra gain in the
front end of the camera to avoid your images being under exposed. You can decrease
or increase gain by clicking on the left or right arrows on the dB gain setting.
You can turn on some gain when you need it, such as outdoor shoots when the light
fades at sunset and you need to increase your image brightness. It’s worth noting that
adding gain will increase noise in your images.
Shutter Speed Control
The shutter speed control is located in the section between the color wheel and the
iris/pedestal control. Decrease or increase the shutter speed by hovering your mouse
pointer over the shutter speed indicator and then clicking on the left or right arrows.
If you see flicker in lights you can decrease your shutter speed to eliminate it.
Decreasing shutter speed is a good way to brighten your images without using camera
gain because you are increasing the exposure time of the image sensor. Increasing
shutter speed will reduce motion blur so can be used when you want action shots to
be sharp and clean with minimal motion blur.
White Balance
The white balance setting next to the shutter speed control can be adjusted by clicking
on the left or right arrows on each side of the color temperature indicator. Different light
sources emit warm or cool colors, so you can compensate by adjusting the white
balance. This ensures the whites in your image stay white.
Hovering your mouse pointer over the gain, shutter
speed and white balance indicators reveal arrows you
can click on to adjust their respective settings.
DaVinci Resolve PrimaryColorCorrector
If you have a color correction background, then you can change your camera control from
a switcher style CCU interface to a user interface that’s more like a primary color corrector
on a post production color grading system.
Blackmagic cameras feature a DaVinci Resolve primary color corrector built in. If you have used
DaVinci Resolve, then creatively, grading in the Blackmagic camera will be identical so you can
use your color grading experience for live production. The color corrector panel can be
expanded out of any camera controller and provides expanded color correction control with
extra settings and a full primary color corrector interface.
68Using Camera Control