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In camera white balance not transferring to CApture One

NN129414UL2
I have my white balance set in camera to 5600k, and shoot Raw+small jpeg. My out of the camera jpegs look great at 5600k, but my Raw captures show up in CO showing "Shot", but with a Kelvin of 5000, and not anywhere close to having the same white balance as the jpegs. This happens with both my Canon D50 as well as my 5D mkii. What am I missing? Using CO 4.8, and looking to upgrade to 5.
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    A white balance value is not an absolute scale but a relative index. When you open a raw file in 3 different raw converters you are likely to see 3 different WB values as shot.
    The fact that the JPEG and the raw file differ in color, can have different causes, adding up. On one hand, the in-camera JPEG is converted in the camera from raw with camera set parameters. These parameters are not applied to the raw file. The raw on the other hand is initially plain and pure presented to you in the raw converter without corrections but only the camera profile in CO.

    So difficult to compare.
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  • NN129414UL2
    Thank you for quick response, Paul. I understand that the in camera WB settings are only transferred as meta data tags along with the Raw file. All of the my in camera adjustments for jpegs are set to neutral, with the exception of WB. My goal is to generate Raw files that need as little WB adjustments as possible once they are brought into CO. With my cameras WB set to 5600k, I get pretty spot on camera jpegs, shooting outdoors with daylight balanced flash. Do I simply run some trial and error tests to see what the "sweet spot" is for in camera WB that will generate a WB tag that CO will translate to my liking?
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  • Paul Steunebrink
    [quote="NN129414UL" wrote:
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    Do I simply run some trial and error tests to see what the "sweet spot" is for in camera WB that will generate a WB tag that CO will translate to my liking?

    Sounds like a strikingly good plan to me. Or create a WB preset in CO with the desired adjustment and apply that to all images after opening. Remember that the power of raw is that you can adjust the WB after the fact without impacting image quality (in contrast to JPEG). So I suggest you balance what's best for JPEG and give your raw files a swing from a preset, having best of both worlds. Or only shoot raw and make QuickProof JPEGs from CO5.
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