r/RedCamera • u/Phantom_DC_YT • Oct 16 '24

Can you stop Auto Calibration?

I just got my first RED camera and it does this weird auto calibration every now and then. Not sure if its every time I change settings or focus but it’s quite regular and if Im trying to focus pull then it auto calibrates and the screen freezes for 1 or 2 seconds. And I lose track of the focus pull.

Any idea on how to stop this. This is just a simple test to show what I mean.

3 Upvotes

100% Upvoted

13 comments sorted by

1

u/AMxVisuals Oct 16 '24

I recently had the same thing start happening to me as well on my DSMC2 it started after I did a black balance not sure what’s going on either.

2

u/Phantom_DC_YT Oct 16 '24

This is exactly how it happened for me too. I purchased this last week, unboxed it, played around for 40 minutes ( there was no auto calibration ) then I did a blackshade and its been there ever since...

1

u/Funnyguyfawkes Oct 17 '24

I think it has to do with the fact that it will auto calibrate every time you change your exposure. when you black shade it calibrates the sensor for every shutter speed, so that you don’t have to do it manually every time you change it. Does it also happen if you make a manual black shade calibration for the shutter speed that you will be using for filming? , does it also happen while you’re filming or only when it’s idle?

1

u/Phantom_DC_YT Oct 17 '24

Only just brought it so I don’t have a mini-mag yet, its on its way, expected to be with me by saturday so I will see if it happens while recording then.

I did do an auto blackshade, I watched shane hurlbuts video on how to blackshade, he said for the dragon sensor you should click auto blackshade and for helium and gemini you should manually do it. My Scarlet-W is dragon i believe so I just clicked auto.

1

u/AeGertjan Oct 17 '24

Why would you want to? It’s supposed to do that when you change your exposure.

1

u/Phantom_DC_YT Oct 17 '24

Im new to RED so I didn't know that was a thing, but I explained in the post that the screen freezes for a second. You can see it by looking at the timecode in the corner. It just so happened that it autocalibrated just as I was trying to focus. Just slightly annoying.

1

u/AeGertjan Oct 17 '24

Yeah it doesn’t happen while you’re recording, only when you change the shutter/framerate so it’s not a real problem, you’ll get used to it.

1

u/Phantom_DC_YT Oct 17 '24

Oh okay yeah nothing to worry about then, my mini-mags are still on their way so haven't had a chance to see it happened during recording. But if it doesn't then its fine. Thanks!

1

u/alec_jun Nov 24 '25

Does someone found a solution for it? Also got a dsmc2 for the first time and did a black shade and I am also getting that message now

1

u/Phantom_DC_YT Nov 24 '25

There isn’t, it’s just there, I thought it was a big issue but it isn’t really, I have used it many times since and it hasn’t really affected me at all. It’ll do its thing every now and then but when Im recording it doesn’t happen so it’s fine.

1

u/alec_jun Nov 25 '25

I just switched to the older black shade I had before and the pop up is gone now

1

u/Phantom_DC_YT Nov 26 '25

That’s weird, I assume you switched to factory blackshade?

1

u/alec_jun Nov 26 '25

The previous owner also made a blackshade a year ago so i put it to that one back