Camera RAW doesn't respect image WB settings from camera

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August 19, 2024
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Camera RAW doesn't respect image WB settings from camera, for example when I opening an PEF from Pentax, and in camera was set up for for example 5600k, ACR opening WB settings from camera as 5300 and with color tint shift 15%, I think that color tint shift should be an edit option. it's not normal, it's an issue.

WB settings are very important, especially when I want be consisten for example in photo series, but sometimes it need corection when opened in ACR, sometimes not. It make worflow messy, it take time to make it just ok, just ok should be available out the box.

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Erik Bloodaxe

Legend

Check your Camera Raw default settings. They are set by selecting a preset. Create one of your own ensuring that WB is set to "As shot" .

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Jerome TandaleAuthor

Participant

Thank You, great idea, I can go around any issue, but ACR is an sofistication tool which should has experience transparent and user friendly as possible, and for example 5600 WB should be 5600 with not any tint, if it happen it mean that something is wrong, PEF files are wrong, or maybe the way how translate these PEFs into ACR envornment an adobe engine is wrong, but it's for sure issue which could be easily solved, as I suspect. Problem is wider and it's not just ACR, if these PEFs have strange tint even in 5600 WB if taken in casula daylight it mean that it's camera manufacturer problem, or some failure.

D Fosse

Community Expert

The numbers aren't supposed to match.

Color temp/tint aren't absolute numbers. There's nothing in the camera that actually measures the color of the light. The sensor just records the photons that hit it.

What these numbers mean, is the amount of correction required to produce a neutral-looking result. That's an algorithm, and since the processing engines are entirely different, different correction may be required to reach that perceptually neutral result.

Now - ACR does read the camera setting, but, given the different processing engines - there is a choice between matching appearance, or matching numbers exactly. The ACR engineers chose to match appearance.

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