M11 White Balance Issue

[Alexander108]

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I was always struggling with WB and recently watched a video by Sean Tucker "White Balance: My (slightly odd) Approach" which I could understand and as I do DNG only, I can always change WB if necessary. So I set my M11 to 5500K. But when I imported the pictured in LR WB was set to 5700K. This is easy to solve bit still: if I set it to 5500K, shouldn't it be 5500K?

Anyone else experiencing this? Thank you!

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[Elliot Harper]

Not sure about LR but you’re sure you not applied some sort of profile while importing?

I'm not sure LR but I use C1, and I also set WB to be always 5500k, and when importing to C1 it’s always 5500k

[Alexander108]

No, nothing that I am aware of. Works fine for the D-Lux 8 and Q3. I need t further scrutinize it. 

[Chris W]

Yeah, I always have my M11 set to5500k. In CaptureOne I select the M11 profile and from memory the WB is not always 5500k, but it still looks good, accurate and it's just a click to adjust it. To be honest, setting the WB to 5500k permanently I understand I'll usually have to adjust it in post.

[Photoworks]

I would not worry about what number you get in a program; you open the same image in 3 different programs, and the number is going to vary. Not only Kelvin, but also the Tint.

[Alexander108]

vor 42 Minuten schrieb Photoworks:

I would not worry about what number you get in a program; you open the same image in 3 different programs, and the number is going to vary. Not only Kelvin, but also the Tint.

Interesting. I googled a bit and it seems the Kelvin value is not directly accessible in the EXIF data. Never occurred to me that it could be that way.