Now you would expect each of these RAW converters to accurately report the white balance Temperature and Tint values recorded by the camera in its EXIF data, wouldn’t you? My sample image was taken with a Sony A6000, which normally gives reasonable results using auto white balance, but with a Laowa 9mm ultra-wide lens fitted, the while balance came out very ‘cold’ for some reason. I tested the same Sony RAW file with three different RAW converters – Adobe Camera Raw (the same RAW engine as Lightroom), Capture One and DxO PhotoLab – and the results were worrying.Īll three produced broadly similar results using the camera’s own As Shot setting and their own manual Daylight white balance presets, but all three disagreed not only about what those Daylight settings should be, but even what the camera captured in the first place. If you’ve ever suspected that different RAW converters interpret white balance settings differently, here’s the proof.
We’d like to think that white balance is a science, right? And that the Temperature and Tint values that form the basis of white balance adjustments are universal constants that we can expect to be consistent across all software applications?
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