Sky Footage Quality Now Terrible
Hi,
I've noticed that this year the footage when off-track is yellow, muddy and vague, not sharp and clear like it should be. It took me a while to realise...the presenters appear yellow/tan, but the track action seems normal. I sent an email to Sky and of course they claimed no knowledge and blamed it on me.
But now I have caught them in the act. I have a clip - I think I can only insert pictures here - of a cameraman clicking a filter over the camera, and as soon as he does the feed is dim and yellowed. If a camera setting is used to make the on-track action clear and easy to see, why would you purposefully make it worse for off-track footage? So stupid.
@Simongwgtn wrote:Hi,
I've noticed that this year the footage when off-track is yellow, muddy and vague, not sharp and clear like it should be. It took me a while to realise...the presenters appear yellow/tan, but the track action seems normal. I sent an email to Sky and of course they claimed no knowledge and blamed it on me.
But now I have caught them in the act. I have a clip - I think I can only insert pictures here - of a cameraman clicking a filter over the camera, and as soon as he does the feed is dim and yellowed. If a camera setting is used to make the on-track action clear and easy to see, why would you purposefully make it worse for off-track footage? So stupid.
It looks to me like the camera operator has inserted a neutral density filter which, to me, improves the overall image clarity. Look at the text on the wall behind the guy on the left. You can read the word 'WALKWAY' much better with the filter in. Without the filter everything is a little over-exposed. Clicking the filter into position gives a more immediate improvement.
It's hard to balance colours for every camera in every different position on a live sporting event so you're never going to get perfect image representation.