Thank you so much. I teach 6th, 7th and 8th grade students video production and I was doing an outdoor lighting lesson. I asked what color is outdoor light. My 6th graders got into an argument with each other over what color daylight was - Clear, Yellow, Orange.... When I told them it was blue - they all told me I was wrong, excpt the quietest little girl who said "Of course it it's blue. That's the color of the sky". LOL This helped them to see it better.
Thanks Paul, because of you and your videos I am not afraid of my camera ( Nikon D3400) anymore. It now is always on Manual, but I still forget the whitebalance, this video let me understand why I am not always happy about the colors... Definately going to change the whitebalance next time!
FANTASTIC TIPS ON WHITE BALANCE! Like many photographers, I have been using the AUTO WB shooting mode indoors and then using daylight or cloudy WB modes outside: You are informing us how to take control of the White Balance serttings! THANKS! hg
I prefered the images on the left using the AWB. The processor seemed to do a pretty good job of figuring it out. If you were really going for the foreground to not be seen, the right would be better.
Same here, I preferred the warmer colours. And it's something that really bugs me with digital cameras: they always seem to produce _bluer_ images than I'd prefer. Of course, it can be compensated, but why is that the default? I've never had this issue with film cameras.
Novice sports photographer here and this explains a LOT of my problems sometimes. I am going to try a custom WB and see if I can avoid some of these orange temp pics. Also, stadium lighting will stop blowing out my subjects white pants at night under the bright lights!
I like the warm lights in the buildings, but prefer the bluish sky. I have spent many evenings waiting for just the right time, 30/45 min after sundown when the lights are on fully, but sky is dark. Sometimes double exposure. this is accomplished with film by shooting the sky when it is right and waiting 45 min for the light to come on and do double exposure. Now with digital and raw capture, the WB can be set for lights and changed locally in ACR local (K key) for the sky.
Your videos are absolutely smashing! You are sooo good at explaining and making photography understanable! Having worked with taking pictures for more than 60 years, I find your prrsentations to be spot on regarding explaining how it works. Thank you so very much. It brings a smile to my face every time. I am a fan!!!
Hi Paul, All those photos have there own beauty, but i like the Magenta Light Purple tones. Even photographing Candles, and photographing Candles on a Birthday cake has its challenges. So having the right White balance will look exactly how our eyes saw the Candles. Another tricky one is peoples faces, sometimes they look orange, and that's where the correct White Balance comes to the rescue. Thanks for this great topic.
Tnx for this. Did manual white balance while using the Sony Television camera's in the past. Then we Needed to go to black and after that go to white. These settings where default in the camera it self. Have not used the Canon white balance by taking a picture yet. Will try this. I wander if setting to the Kelvin thempeture with a app will work to. Need to test this also. Once again tnx for the explanation for the Canon camera. Will try this with my R6M2 greatings Leo.
A good question, this is a tricky one because the light source will be changing constantly, plus the fireworks may be in a variety of colours that may confuse the camera is using AWB. I would try both daylight (for warmer colours) and Incandescent / Tungsten. If shooting RAW images you can of course adjust the White Balance in post.
Thank you Paul for another informative episode. The White Balance Chart is much appreciated and will prove to be very useful. Again, thank you and be safe 🙏
Thank you Paul I found that this colour balance chart to be very useful. I’ve picked up a lot of hints from you over the last two years. Please keep up the good work and once again, thank you from Canada.
Paul - thank you for yet another great vid! You cover such an important array of topics and present them well for various levels of photographer. Amazing! Thanks again
I like the picture on the right side but i did like both the different sky color but i just perfer the right side color for the bottom half of the image but, just my opinion 😊
Thanks so much for sharing another wonderful video like always Paul, I love the the city photos on the right because they have a cool feeling like the nigth, Paul it would be awesome if you can make a backlight photography tutorial 👍🤗
I remember seeing a K in my previous camera and never knew what that was. Good to know now what each one means. My new canon camera didn’t even come with a user manual so I’m learning by looking up stuff.
Hi Paul, thanks for another great video, I preferred the photo to the right of screen before you explained the different settings. It certainly has woken me up to the options available. Could you possibly also do a video explaining the options available in "metering mode" eg evaluative v spot metering etc etc. I've quickly looked through your videos & couldn't see anything but if I've missed it please put a link in. Thanks again Paul, always simple but thorough.
Thanks Paul for explaining! You said that the camara make a couple of changes when selecting custum white balance. I guess that means that it not only sets the right/proper color temperature (in kelvin) but does more? What would this be? Looking at this from a different perspective: would it be possible to get the same white balance setting when selecting the right/proper color temperature manually compared to custom white balance?
Definitely prefer the tungsten because of the blue sky. Thanks Paul. Always great information. I had to reset my RUclips notifications. Something that happens once in awhile. Nice tips here. Having a Nikon D3500 I appreciate the fact you try to cover everyone's cameras. Beautiful viewpoint of the city. Looking forward to your next video. Take care.
what will using different white balance in RAW do? Will it show up when imported because I know that other things like shadow reduction, sharpness etc don't
Hi, thanks s lot, however, my images aren't that cool since I started to ba meticulous about white balance modes. I use Canon R10, and I realized that my subjects in studio shoot became yellowish with the Flash WB mode, the auto mode is still good though. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Regards,
I used my old Rebel at 6,000 feet in Mexico today. An orange garment was fine in the shade, but looked a wild psychedelic red in direct sunlight. I'm assuming this is a white balance issue, and it appears to be quite a challenge to correct it on computer. Maybe I buggered it with the fill flash.
Hi Curtis, was waiting for someone to ask that question... 🙂 Multiple different light sources can be a problem and there's no simple one fix solution. Sometimes it could be as simple as setting the white balance based on the dominant / main light source. If using LED lighting then you can adjust the temperature of light to match other light sources (like window light for example). If using flash / speed light then using coloured gels / correction filters can also be a good fix, for example if shooting a subject at sunset with a flash, you can add a warm orange filter to the flash to match the natural light. Shooting RAW will of course give you the opportunity to make more adjustments in post. Best wishes and thanks for watching.
@@photogenius Tell me about it! I'm often shooting at social gatherings where there is a mix of LED downlights (rapidly replacing the old incandescent or halogen lights), fluorescents, and various coloured spotlights. Throw in fill flash as required when the lights go down. I generally just leave the camera in AWB and deal with any gross casts by playing with the RAW files in post. Also, as a lapsed physicist, I'm intrigued that the lowest temperature, giving reddish light, is warm, and the highest temperature, giving blue/white light, is cold! Edit: Should have added love your videos; there's always food for thought.
if im having a studio light set up, is there a differences if ill put 3kalvin or 5kalvin , or it doesnt matter as long as my white balance is correct? is there a suggestion kelvin temp i should aim for?
To Paul from Stephen I have gust your video about wb I have got to the Nikon p950 bridge camera if I go on to the White balance I go plus +1 or 2 or 3 mines 1 or 2 or 3
Paul, when in a sports stadium, lights starting to come on, sun setting and hits a clear opening. Do you stop shooting until things calm down? With auto white balance, some photos were blue, green or red in random.... All stadiums have different Lighting. Not sure why all our games are at such a difficult time. Maybe it will make the easy times better. Thanks for this Paul.
Hi there, your videos are absolutely incredible and I was hoping you could help me out cus I'm a begginer photographer and I want to learn how to capture, clear, focus, sharp photos at night using my canon EOS 1500D. Everytime when I take pictures in the night especially when there is light I find it really hard to capture a clear, sharp and best photo that depends on the light. Thanks ❤️
I've made a video on night photography that I recommend you check out : ruclips.net/video/X5vogaSCmuk/видео.html Hope that helps, thanks for watching 👍🏻
Hi Paul. Can you do a video on budget photograpy for beginners? There are some well-regarded older cameras out there such as the Sony A200, Canon 40D etc that are quite cheap to buy (£60-100 including kit lenses) but still pack a punch today. Specifically the Sony A200 that can use the cheap and plentiful Minolta A-Mount lenses going back to the 90s. Would be good to see the kind of results you can get from a buget set up. Thanks!
I have this image I wanna copy the white balance of but it’s on my computer and I can’t seem to get the image to show up on my camera when putting it on the SD card back into my camera
Thanks Paul. Once again a fantastic video of knowledge. I have learnt so much from watching your channel and it has improved my photograhy greatly. A shame your the other side of the world.
Hi, I’m a beginner using flash indoors for food photography. I thought I had finally figured out all my settings on my last shoot, however when I set-up again in the same spot another day, the white balance was off despite identical settings. My ambient light was cancelled in both circumstances, and the only difference when I shot the first time it was cloudy in my kitchen, yet bright. And the second time it was cloudy and much darker. I thought flash was a slam dunk and I did not need to worry about WB. I ended up adjusting the WB by increasing the ISO. However when using flash I was under the impression that shutter speed and ISO should not be touched. BTW I also tried the cloudy setting on my Nikon Z6 but it was too warm. Normally with flash I set the WB to daylight. Any thoughts about this? Thanks you 😊
Thanks for the white balance lesson! I'm just now starting to figure out the balance btwn apeture, shutter speed and ISO. Made some photos today that will definitely need white balance adjustment in post. Thanks a ton for all your content!!!
One question since it is stated that when using raw you can adjust white balance in post so if shooting raw is there a point on adjusting white balance because most of the time personally am shooting burst where i need to change sttings quickly. Is adjusting white balance duting shoot any different in adjusting color in post?
White balance setting has no effect when shooting in RAW mode. This is because RAW mode is a recording of what the censor sees with little to no prepossessing done in camera.
Hi Nathan, good question. The only reason I don’t feature Sony cameras is that I don’t have one ( although I’m familiar with them as I see many on my courses). My intention with the channel is to help as many people as possible, so I’m 100% keen to feature Sony cameras, however (as you can imagine) the cost of buying another camera (or two) and lenses means it may have to wait until later in the year. Best wishes Paul @ Photo Genius
You can do a test, set your AWB on and take a picture under a tungsten light. (Regular light bulb) If your RAW file is yellow your camera only applies its White Balance to JEPG files. Your RAW files will need Digital Darkroom software. (PhotoShop, Lightroom, iPhoto etc)
I like the way Paul can break down a subject and make it understandable. I have learned more from Paul than all the others on youtube combined.
I ALWAYS lock in WB before every shoot. That way, if there is an issue, I can batch apply a correction to all the photos. Genius!
Thank you so much. I teach 6th, 7th and 8th grade students video production and I was doing an outdoor lighting lesson. I asked what color is outdoor light. My 6th graders got into an argument with each other over what color daylight was - Clear, Yellow, Orange.... When I told them it was blue - they all told me I was wrong, excpt the quietest little girl who said "Of course it it's blue. That's the color of the sky". LOL This helped them to see it better.
Thanks Paul, because of you and your videos I am not afraid of my camera ( Nikon D3400) anymore.
It now is always on Manual, but I still forget the whitebalance, this video let me understand why I am not always happy about the colors...
Definately going to change the whitebalance next time!
thanks Paul
at 8.41mins i liked the right hand side pics better..the blue tones so nice
Paul, you're the best!!!
simple... straight and on target presentation....😍😍😍
Thank you so much.
Thanks Paul you've given some great ideas especially I love taking pictures of early mornings and late evening exposures.
Great to hear, thanks for watching.
FANTASTIC TIPS ON WHITE BALANCE! Like many photographers, I have been using the AUTO WB shooting mode indoors and then using daylight or cloudy WB modes outside:
You are informing us how to take control of the White Balance serttings! THANKS! hg
I prefered the images on the left using the AWB. The processor seemed to do a pretty good job of figuring it out. If you were really going for the foreground to not be seen, the right would be better.
Same here, I preferred the warmer colours. And it's something that really bugs me with digital cameras: they always seem to produce _bluer_ images than I'd prefer. Of course, it can be compensated, but why is that the default? I've never had this issue with film cameras.
same here
Novice sports photographer here and this explains a LOT of my problems sometimes. I am going to try a custom WB and see if I can avoid some of these orange temp pics. Also, stadium lighting will stop blowing out my subjects white pants at night under the bright lights!
Your videos are so helpful 🎉
Good demo! Thanks for explaining custom settings. RAW is king
I like the warm lights in the buildings, but prefer the bluish sky. I have spent many evenings waiting for just the right time, 30/45 min after sundown when the lights are on fully, but sky is dark. Sometimes double exposure. this is accomplished with film by shooting the sky when it is right and waiting 45 min for the light to come on and do double exposure. Now with digital and raw capture, the WB can be set for lights and changed locally in ACR local (K key) for the sky.
Thank you so much. I have often wondered about how to use white balance.
Very helpful and handy hints. Thanks for the video.
I liked the cooler setting because it looks crisper. But I also loved the majenta. Sort of a warm morning glow
Your videos are absolutely smashing! You are sooo good at explaining and making photography understanable! Having worked with taking pictures for more than 60 years, I find your prrsentations to be spot on regarding explaining how it works. Thank you so very much. It brings a smile to my face every time. I am a fan!!!
Hi Paul, All those photos have there own beauty, but i like the Magenta Light Purple tones. Even photographing Candles, and photographing Candles on a Birthday cake has its challenges. So having the right White balance will look exactly how our eyes saw the Candles. Another tricky one is peoples faces, sometimes they look orange, and that's where the correct White Balance comes to the rescue. Thanks for this great topic.
Great video!! As always 👏🏽
Interesting subject Paul thanks for going over this for us beginners-much appreciated- thanks for the video!
Kelvin English!!!!!! That's a good one.
Good video. I tend to leave my camera on Auto WB unless I'm using Flash but I'll pay more attention to the white balance settings from now on.
Thanks for explaining the K setting, hoping to use this for my concert indoor shots in future and have a play around with the numbers.
Great video. Really helpful
Great lesson Paul, as usual !😊
Hi Pau, l just wanted to say thanks for the chart . Love your night photos the cool tone ones are my favorite.
Tnx for this. Did manual white balance while using the Sony Television camera's in the past. Then we Needed to go to black and after that go to white. These settings where default in the camera it self. Have not used the Canon white balance by taking a picture yet. Will try this. I wander if setting to the Kelvin thempeture with a app will work to. Need to test this also. Once again tnx for the explanation for the Canon camera. Will try this with my R6M2 greatings Leo.
hi Paul, i am new to photography can you please make a video with the different metering modes
Please suggest what color temperature should I keep for a sunset or sunrise photography? Thanks for the video.
The cloudy setting, or around 6000-6500K should give the best results.
Hi Paul, I was just wondering what white valance setting should I use when shooting fireworks?
A good question, this is a tricky one because the light source will be changing constantly, plus the fireworks may be in a variety of colours that may confuse the camera is using AWB. I would try both daylight (for warmer colours) and Incandescent / Tungsten. If shooting RAW images you can of course adjust the White Balance in post.
Great video Paul, very informative as always. Thank you.
Always a huge help. Thanks for everything.
Thanks Paul. Although I use an OM-5, I always find your advice to be 100% relatable to my camera. Great video, thank you.
Thks for the chart n as always very good explainations.
Love to watch your video Paul they are always very informative. 👏👏 Thank you.
Great content, thanks for the chart!!!
Great video Paul. Please consider doing one about external flash photography.
Hi Paul, thank you.
Thank you Paul for another informative episode. The White Balance Chart is much appreciated and will prove to be very useful. Again, thank you and be safe 🙏
I am subscribing your channel. It helps me a lot...
As always, very informative.
This was very helpful for me! Love your videos
Thank you Paul I found that this colour balance chart to be very useful. I’ve picked up a lot of hints from you over the last two years. Please keep up the good work and once again, thank you from Canada.
Thanks for sharing the video.. very useful information.
Always love the videos thanks for the tips!
Paul - thank you for yet another great vid! You cover such an important array of topics and present them well for various levels of photographer. Amazing! Thanks again
Thanks for a reminder on resetting the custom WB. It's been years since I broke out the DSLR.
I love your photos and videos. I was wondering what the best editing software would be, or what you'd recommend?
Thank you Paul for another great video and great information
comprehensive explanation. thnx
Hi Paul thanks for giving more much needed advice, love all the images, but purple tones/hues are my personal favourite 👍
A blue sky always does the trick for me. Love your videos 😎
My choices are AWB for the sky colors, but for the rest the manual change tungsten was nicer. Can we get a middle ground and have both?
You have a wonderful way of explaining the different parts of photography. WB does it matter if you are shooting in RAW or just with JPEG?
see my comment with this video "If/when you shoot RAW ONLY"
Yes white balance is not applied in RAW. Only the processing from the camera in JPEG
Thanks!
Thank you kindly for your support, have a great day! 👏🙂
Thanks. I appreciate your videos.
I like the picture on the right side but i did like both the different sky color but i just perfer the right side color for the bottom half of the image but, just my opinion 😊
Thanks so much for sharing another wonderful video like always Paul, I love the the city photos on the right because they have a cool feeling like the nigth, Paul it would be awesome if you can make a backlight photography tutorial 👍🤗
I remember seeing a K in my previous camera and never knew what that was. Good to know now what each one means. My new canon camera didn’t even come with a user manual so I’m learning by looking up stuff.
Hi Paul, thanks for another great video, I preferred the photo to the right of screen before you explained the different settings.
It certainly has woken me up to the options available.
Could you possibly also do a video explaining the options available in "metering mode" eg evaluative v spot metering etc etc.
I've quickly looked through your videos & couldn't see anything but if I've missed it please put a link in.
Thanks again Paul, always simple but thorough.
Yes, I would be interested in that.
Thanks Paul for explaining! You said that the camara make a couple of changes when selecting custum white balance. I guess that means that it not only sets the right/proper color temperature (in kelvin) but does more? What would this be? Looking at this from a different perspective: would it be possible to get the same white balance setting when selecting the right/proper color temperature manually compared to custom white balance?
This has really helped thank you 😊
Definitely prefer the tungsten because of the blue sky. Thanks Paul. Always great information. I had to reset my RUclips notifications. Something that happens once in awhile. Nice tips here. Having a Nikon D3500 I appreciate the fact you try to cover everyone's cameras. Beautiful viewpoint of the city. Looking forward to your next video. Take care.
what will using different white balance in RAW do? Will it show up when imported because I know that other things like shadow reduction, sharpness etc don't
Thank you
Hi, thanks s lot, however, my images aren't that cool since I started to ba meticulous about white balance modes. I use Canon R10, and I realized that my subjects in studio shoot became yellowish with the Flash WB mode, the auto mode is still good though. Please correct me if I'm mistaken. Regards,
great video! thank you!
I used my old Rebel at 6,000 feet in Mexico today. An orange garment was fine in the shade, but looked a wild psychedelic red in direct sunlight. I'm assuming this is a white balance issue, and it appears to be quite a challenge to correct it on computer. Maybe I buggered it with the fill flash.
Thanks so much. Question. So if I’m doing in studio portraits if very busy kids. With OCF and artificial light would daylight be the best?
Hi Paul, thanks for the video, got a question . what happens if you have multiple different lighting in a room. thanks for the advice.
Hi Curtis, was waiting for someone to ask that question... 🙂 Multiple different light sources can be a problem and there's no simple one fix solution. Sometimes it could be as simple as setting the white balance based on the dominant / main light source. If using LED lighting then you can adjust the temperature of light to match other light sources (like window light for example). If using flash / speed light then using coloured gels / correction filters can also be a good fix, for example if shooting a subject at sunset with a flash, you can add a warm orange filter to the flash to match the natural light. Shooting RAW will of course give you the opportunity to make more adjustments in post.
Best wishes and thanks for watching.
@@photogenius Tell me about it! I'm often shooting at social gatherings where there is a mix of LED downlights (rapidly replacing the old incandescent or halogen lights), fluorescents, and various coloured spotlights. Throw in fill flash as required when the lights go down. I generally just leave the camera in AWB and deal with any gross casts by playing with the RAW files in post.
Also, as a lapsed physicist, I'm intrigued that the lowest temperature, giving reddish light, is warm, and the highest temperature, giving blue/white light, is cold!
Edit: Should have added love your videos; there's always food for thought.
if im having a studio light set up, is there a differences if ill put 3kalvin or 5kalvin , or it doesnt matter as long as my white balance is correct? is there a suggestion kelvin temp i should aim for?
I preferred the 2nd and 4th. As they both looked more natural
Hi Paul new to your channel great video and very easy to understand and follow keep up the good work cheers John
GREAT video. I liked and subbed. 💯
hi Paul what settings is best for EOS 750D for sharp images?
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Some more good tips Paul.
To Paul from Stephen I have gust your video about wb I have got to the Nikon p950 bridge camera if I go on to the White balance I go plus +1 or 2 or 3 mines 1 or 2 or 3
Paul, when in a sports stadium, lights starting to come on, sun setting and hits a clear opening. Do you stop shooting until things calm down? With auto white balance, some photos were blue, green or red in random.... All stadiums have different Lighting. Not sure why all our games are at such a difficult time. Maybe it will make the easy times better. Thanks for this Paul.
Hi there, your videos are absolutely incredible and I was hoping you could help me out cus I'm a begginer photographer and I want to learn how to capture, clear, focus, sharp photos at night using my canon EOS 1500D. Everytime when I take pictures in the night especially when there is light I find it really hard to capture a clear, sharp and best photo that depends on the light. Thanks ❤️
I've made a video on night photography that I recommend you check out : ruclips.net/video/X5vogaSCmuk/видео.html
Hope that helps, thanks for watching 👍🏻
Hi Paul. Can you do a video on budget photograpy for beginners? There are some well-regarded older cameras out there such as the Sony A200, Canon 40D etc that are quite cheap to buy (£60-100 including kit lenses) but still pack a punch today. Specifically the Sony A200 that can use the cheap and plentiful Minolta A-Mount lenses going back to the 90s. Would be good to see the kind of results you can get from a buget set up. Thanks!
Whats best settings for capture fast jets?
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I set my camera to incandescent because it lowkey seems like the only white balance that is bearable to look at
Why would you use a particular setting? For example; why use the tungsten option for n outdoor landscape? Important t know the reasoning . Thanks
I prefer the photos on the right.
I have this image I wanna copy the white balance of but it’s on my computer and I can’t seem to get the image to show up on my camera when putting it on the SD card back into my camera
Thanks Paul. Once again a fantastic video of knowledge. I have learnt so much from watching your channel and it has improved my photograhy greatly. A shame your the other side of the world.
Hi, I’m a beginner using flash indoors for food photography. I thought I had finally figured out all my settings on my last shoot, however when I set-up again in the same spot another day, the white balance was off despite identical settings. My ambient light was cancelled in both circumstances, and the only difference when I shot the first time it was cloudy in my kitchen, yet bright. And the second time it was cloudy and much darker. I thought flash was a slam dunk and I did not need to worry about WB. I ended up adjusting the WB by increasing the ISO. However when using flash I was under the impression that shutter speed and ISO should not be touched. BTW I also tried the cloudy setting on my Nikon Z6 but it was too warm. Normally with flash I set the WB to daylight. Any thoughts about this? Thanks you 😊
Thanks for the white balance lesson! I'm just now starting to figure out the balance btwn apeture, shutter speed and ISO.
Made some photos today that will definitely need white balance adjustment in post. Thanks a ton for all your content!!!
thanks Paul, what an inspiration... Can you make videos on how to accurately control white balance for us color blind people. Thanks 🙏
i always you WB works great
Great
One question since it is stated that when using raw you can adjust white balance in post so if shooting raw is there a point on adjusting white balance because most of the time personally am shooting burst where i need to change sttings quickly. Is adjusting white balance duting shoot any different in adjusting color in post?
White balance setting has no effect when shooting in RAW mode. This is because RAW mode is a recording of what the censor sees with little to no prepossessing done in camera.
see my comment with this video "If/when you shoot RAW ONLY"
Thanks that helps a lot
When I shoot, I allways want the pgotos to represent what I‘ve seen. So if the scene was on warm colors I don‘t want to correct them.
Is there any reason why you never mention Sony cameras?
Hi Nathan, good question. The only reason I don’t feature Sony cameras is that I don’t have one ( although I’m familiar with them as I see many on my courses). My intention with the channel is to help as many people as possible, so I’m 100% keen to feature Sony cameras, however (as you can imagine) the cost of buying another camera (or two) and lenses means it may have to wait until later in the year.
Best wishes
Paul @ Photo Genius
So does white balance effect RAW files? I shoot in RAW but always leave my camera set to AUTO WB..
You can do a test, set your AWB on and take a picture under a tungsten light. (Regular light bulb) If your RAW file is yellow your camera only applies its White Balance to JEPG files. Your RAW files will need Digital Darkroom software. (PhotoShop, Lightroom, iPhoto etc)
see my comment with this video "If/when you shoot RAW ONLY"
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I got a new camera