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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Daylight WB Not The Same In ACR as In-Camera Setting? (A7RII) | |
jhinkey wrote:
The question is - why the difference between in-camera (or as-shot) daylight WB and ACR?
Because there's no such thing as capital-d Daylight.
Oslo has different daylight from Orlando, which has different daylight from Osaka, which has different daylight from Olympia, and even internally those cities have different daylight depending on what part of the day we're talking about. When a software or hardware vendor is picking a correlated color temperature to call "daylight," they're throwing a dart at the board and picking a temperature that—according to their criteria—best represents the temperature daylight probably is.
Sony's will therefore likely be different from Adobe's, which will likely be different from Phase One's, and you get the picture from there.
And while it may seem like a problem on the surface, it's all academic anyway: Photography's about taste. If it's too warm, cool it down. If it's too cool, warm it up. Labels on a dropdown don't dictate your output; you do. For those rare occasions you have to pretend the color balance is "accurate," that's what ColorChecker and spectrally-neutral gray cards are for. (...And then you'll probably tweak the white balance and color anyway because it still needs to look good.)
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