This is our entry in iScriblr’s FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION” Challenge! PHOTOGRAPH!.
A very popular interactive exhibit in the Palais de Tokyo in Paris is a set of white backlit screens. Visitors pose behind the screens for the enjoyment of spectators on the other side. We spent quite a few minutes here photographing displays of uninhibited freedom of expression.
After a few minutes, it became obvious that the camera, a Canon EOS Rebel SL2 (known in Europe as a Canon 200D), was also exhibiting its freedom of expression. The screens were white, the backlights were white, and the images seen by the human eye were black figures on a white background. The backgrounds captured by the camera were shades of blue, yellow, green, purple and orange. Not white. The images captured by our other camera, a Fuji X100T, were black figures on a white background, as were the images captured on the smart phones of other spectators near us.
When we have more time, we will try to figure out why the Canon decided to express its artsy side at that time and place: it has not repeated that behavior since. Was it due to the screen material? The camera sensor? If anyone else has experienced this false color artifact, or knows why it happens, we would really like to know.
This photo was taken on April 10, 2019. Specs are:
Canon 200D, ISO 6400, f/3.5, 1/250 sec, 22 mm.
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