Lightroom/Camera Raw: Fuji GFX Raw File White Balance Issues - Magenta Tint

Hi Chris Dodkin, have you found a solution to the WB issue with the GFX 50R? I just bought it and have the issue I just described to Rikk
Appreciate any input

Hi Rikk, I'm having sort of the same issue as well. I just bought a GFX 50R. My "auto WB" photos come our with a significant magenta cast and my "daylight WB" are tending toward green.
It is very frustrating. I have read from other professional Landscape Photographers as myself that this is also an issue for them. Can this be fixed anytime soon? it has been a while since these GFX cameras are out in the market

Chris - there are no updates at this time.

Rikk - any updates from Adobe? It's been 4 months now - thx

Rikk - any updates from Adobe?

Thank you for the updated information. I will pass it along. 

Rikk - I'm seeing the same behavior if I shoot in 'Daylight' WB set in-camera. When that RAW file is imported into ACR it ends up cooler and with too much magenta every time.

Adobe ACR shows 4650 K +17CC if I set the WB in-camera to Daylight

Adobe ACR shows 5500 K +10CC if I set the WB in ACR to Daylight

The images are visually different, with a cool magenta color cast on the image where daylight WB is set in-camera.

So the WB tags from the camera are either wrong, or the WB tags are being incorrectly mapped in ACR. 

Either way it's a big issue.

Just checked the EXIF data and the only settings difference I can see is that your file has a White Balance Fine Tune setting and all of the other files without he issue are set to 0, 0.

It's possible the in-camera 'As Shot' WB value isn't being calculated correctly using the 'Fine Tune' values, but is being applied properly to the rendered image data in camera JPEG file.

You can test this by shooting raw+JPEG under the same lighting conditions with the camera's White Balance Fine Tune set to 0, 0 and then a 2nd shot with the below Red -20, Blue +0 settings. Make sure to apply the same in-camera Film Mode setting in ACR's Profile setting. If the raw and JPEG file WB matches in the 0, 0 shot and are different in the -20, 0 shots then that explains what's happening.

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White Balance Fine Tune:Red -20, Blue +0

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White Balance Fine Tune:Red +0, Blue +0

NOTE: I'm still seeing a WB difference between Lightroom Classic 8.2.1 Library and Develop modules with just a Standard Preview built. Once a 1:1 Preview is built the Library module preview matches the Develop module and the rendering in ACR. Why just the Fuji GFX files exhibit this is a mystery. However, it's a separate issue specific to Lightroom that Adobe Engineering needs to investigate.

Lightroom Classic 8.2.1 Library module

    STANDARD PREVIEW BUILT                   1:1 PREVIEW BUILT

Todd - appreciate you trying to help, but you keep going off track, and confusing the issue. Please leave this to Rikk and the team. Thx.

Chris, I can easily see the WB difference between this JPEG and RAF file pair. Thinking about this it may have something to do with the in-camera crop setting. You mentioned that when a crop is set the camera creates both an RAF file and a JPEG, even when the camera is set to raw only. Perhaps the JPEG created with in-camera crop is applying WB differently.

Here's a GFX 50R raw+JPEG file pair from Imaging Resources. With the As Shot WB and camera profile Provia/Standard applied the WB in the ColorChecker is correct and the same in both the RAF and JPEG file. The only difference here is that an in-camera crop hasn't been applied. There may be some other in-camera settings as well, but I haven't examined them. The color rendering is also near identical with some slight differences in saturation.

Plese let me know if you're seeing something different when viewed on your system with the As Shot WB and camera profile Provia/Standard settings in ACR.


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