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Nikon Z6 White balance issue

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
December 15, 2018
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Hi,

It seems like the white balance coeffs are not good in the Nikon Z6 profiles.

All RAW require -30 to -60 in tint. As a result, the white balance presets cannot be used because they will render the images very pinky.

The auto white balance cannot be used also.

In addition the "camera profiles" seem off: skin tones shift toward yellow in the Camera Standard profil comparing to the Jpegs. The adobe color is actually closer to the standard jpegs than the dedicated profile.

Cheers,

Romain

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johnrellis

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"is there any chance Adobe would approach and solve this issue?"

See here for the open bug report on Z 6 white balance issues:

https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/bug-reports-nikon-z6-raw-processing-and-adobe-wb

Be sure to click Me Too and Follow in the upper-right corner. Adobe has acknowledged problems with Z 6 white balance and has marked this bug report as "In Progress", which means they've got an internal bug report filed on this and are working on it. But Adobe rarely indicates when they plan to have a bug fixed.

LR 9 just came out today but they haven't published a fixed-bug list yet.

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Romain_ThAuthor

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For information, this is not happening with the Z7 profiles.

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Jao vdL

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I have been seeing I need quite large negative tint values for my Z7 too but more like -10 to -20 and strong pink coloration using "auto" button and white balance presets. I do get really good correspondence to in camera jpeg out of the box since Lightroom picks up the in-camera selected profile for these cameras and other settings. Perhaps you should report a bug with these at https://feedback.photoshop.com . Adobe engineers don't really frequent this forum (it's just other users) but they do look at the feedback site for bug reports and suggestions.

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Romain_ThAuthor

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After reviewing the Z7 photos, you're right, most of them are between -20 and 0.

I have never had such problems with other cameras (used to use LR for multiple Sony and Nikon cameras).

By the way, there is an issue logged here: Lightroom/Camera Raw: Nikon Z6 RAW processing and Adobe WB | Photoshop Family Customer Community

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