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as you can see in these two photos of the bride, the sky in the photo in jpg is colored. The photo is well exposed if I made a video I had the same problem.

Try with the same lighting situation. Expose for the shadow area and tell me if the sky is colored.
With Canon or Leica M or Q I have not encountered this problem.
Leica-camera service in Italy say they will work with a firmware update, I hope so
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Those two images look like they have different WB settings (different skin tone as well as sky colour). Does your raw converter adjust WB?

This looks like a WB issue, but difficult to judge.

In general, I find the Auto WB of the SL very effective - I've only ever had problems indoors with mixed lighting.

But I also only shoot raw, and usually fine tune WB anyway - if for no other reason than to get consistent WB within a sequence of shots.

 

I used my own custom colour profile in Lightroom for a while. It removed cyan from bright sunny skies (even before that it wasn't as bad as your jpg), but more recently I have used the embedded profile without any problems: either Leica changed it with FW 1.2 or we haven't seen enough sunny skies in the UK recently to test it properly.

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as you can see in these two photos of the bride, the sky in the photo in jpg is colored. The photo is well exposed if I made a video I had the same problem.

Try with the same lighting situation. Expose for the shadow area and tell me if the sky is colored.
With Canon or Leica M or Q I have not encountered this problem.
Leica-camera service in Italy say they will work with a firmware update, I hope so

 

What firmware were you using?

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With bright sunny conditions, if you expose for the bride in the shadows, any sky in the scene will be over-exposed (and would be at a different colour temperature compared to the shade), especially as it looks like you are shooting in the general direction of the sun, The sky in your shot is very over-exposed, but the SL has done its best to give you a jpg.

For this lighting scenario I would expect to have to use the raw image and work on it to get the best outcome, by adjusting colour balance and exposure in different parts of the image.

A better solution would be to avoid shooting into the shade at the same time as having into-the-sun sky in the shot  :)

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So do I. Proper technique is to expose for the highlights and bring up the shadows in postprocessing.

Blowing the highlights like here, probably the blue channel, may well produce this effect.

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