Question about anti flicker feature on 5DS and 5DMKIV

Oct 2, 2014
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I recently brought my 6D and 70-300L for a school play. I was astonished that out of 10 pictures, 3 where "blue", one "red". Like they where shot in "black and blue" and "black and red" (monochrome).
I presume the school use some kind of multi colored LED light source to emulate "white".

Would the anti "flicker" in 5DS and 5DMkIV avoid those"monochrome" images?
 
The anti-flicker simply detects the light frequency (50Hz theoretically?) and forces the camera to wait a fraction of a second when the light reaches its brightness peak (on the sine wave). I think if your color light has a green or blue shade when it's dimmed and no shade when it's on peak, the anti-flicker may help, otherwise it will be probably useless.
 
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