P: Color temperature below 2000K

I now photograph my negatives with some old fashioned colour balance filters - an 80B plus an 80C - which increase the colour temperature of the resulting negative raw file, making it easier to balance.

The only real workaround is to set the color temp to 2000º then use the tone control tool and adjust the blue curve to taste.

Any good new workarounds for this? I have a Sony camera, so shoot ARW's. I am doing 10's of thousands of negatives, so also want to avoid the extra step of exporting to TIF's and reimporting to get a lower temperature.

Though I'm not doing something like taking IR photos, one room in which I take photos sometimes requires a color temperature below 2000ºK to look right; I end up at 2000º and then have to manually tweak the colors to get things just a bit cooler.

I don't want to switch to something like Capture One but admit to drooling when I can eyedropper white balance with it and it instantly comes up with a perfect white balance at 1925º or so.

Most of the time a temperature of 2000º to 2050º is perfect, so I don't need that much extra latitude, but when you do, you do.

I've been hoping for this since Lightroom 6, but it seems like a feature Adobe isn't interested in implementing.

Hi!

I work as a professional photographer and for the last 5 years I have shot a lot of analogue jobs.

I like to tune my negatives myself without using Negative Pro ect. but have not been able to do so in LR classic or LR because the White balance Temp. slider only goes down to 2000K. We need the White balance temp. slider to go down to 1000K, to be able to set the right white balance on many of my negatives. Capture 1 has this possiblity, but I would like to move back to LR classic for many reasons. So me with many other film shooters would really appreciate this. This is actually so important to me, it will decide if I can move back to LR or not. Thank you in advance! 🙂

Yours Sincerely

Jarle H. Hvidsten 

Great. Thank you. I have been searching for a solution since moving to the K3iii. This is the only solution that seems to work. I think that the Editor does not like the Pentax camera DNG from PEF version but is happy with the Converters own version of the same process. (I have in the past created the profiles for other Pentax cameras without issues!). This might help people with people with other camera makes attempting to load RAW files.

The DNG Profile Editor is a free software utility for creating or editing camera profiles.

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