Basic Betacam Camerawork, 3rd Edition

Colour

Colour vision is made possible by cones on the retina of the eye, which respond to different colours. The cones are of three types sensitive to certain bands of light – either green, red or blue. The three responses combine so that, with normal vision, all other colours can be discerned. There is a wide variation in an individual’s receptor response to different colours but many tests have established an average response. Colour television adopts the same principle by using a prism behind the lens to split the light from a scene into three separate channels. The amplitude of these individual colour signals depends on the actual colour in the televised scene. Colours that are composed of two or more of these primary colours produce proportional ...