Digital Cinematography, 2nd Edition

414 Chapter 10

the camera’s color matrix, color phase, color bal-

ance, and overall gain levels. The vectorscope has

three primary red, green, and blue target boxes

and three secondary yellow, cyan, and magenta

target boxes arranged in a circular pattern, clock-

wise from red, magenta, blue, cyan, green, yellow,

and completing the circle, back to red; the middle

of the vectorscope is white.

Figure 10.46 What the vectorscope shows.

Adjustment of the matrix (on cameras

that allow access to this setting) varies from

camera to camera, but one thing is constant

in all cameras; any adjustment to the matrix

in one direction ...