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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

Legend

"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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Jao vdL

Community Expert

I just got the Z6 and I am having the following issue shooting in RAW :
LR is making adjustments on its own.
When using the new S lenses (35 F1-8 & 24-70 F4) LR is adding +33 to exposure and +10 to Shadows, these are fixed as I cannot go back to zero, the new zero is +33 and +10 for each.
Adding to the issue is that when I use a F Nikon Lens (50mm F1.8) with the Z adapter in addition to the 2 adjustments above it changes contrast at all different numbers, I shot 150 pictures and it ranged for -12 to +10.

This is obvious a LR problem, I have used LR for 2 Nikon bodies (610 & 750) and a Canon P&S G9x with no changes to the LR adjustment panel.
The settings for the Z6 are the same as my D750, with a few new ones that for the most part are not picture enchantments.
WB= Auto 1 (Neutral), Picture Control = Auto.

If anyone has this type of issue please add yours.
Lightroom if you are reading this, please look into this,

Thanks,

Greg

Greg,

these settings are not automatic, they are controlled by the in-body settings in your Z6. Your Z6 saves the in-camera settings in camera-raw specific settings in its NEF files. The Z7 and Z6 are the only cameras that do this. No other camera writes develop settings for Lightroom/Camera Raw. Lightroom reads these and applies them by default. These include the picture profile, the contrast settings, the brightness, saturation, active D-lighting, vignette and lens correction, etc. So in your case, you probably turned on active D-lighting, which has the effect of dialing in some exposure compensation and shadow brightening to approximate the in-camera jpeg. To get rid of this, simply change those settings in your camera. Biggest one is to turn off D-lighting if you want zeros in the imported raw. You can also change the defaults for the cAmera in Lightroom but then the in-camera settings will simply get ignored.

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