Color balance question

@Aleph A good way to learn about your raw file is to use exiftool or something similar. Other than that, @Morgan_Hardwood pretty much covered everything. A snippet of exiftool output:

WB RGGB Levels As Shot          : 2180 1024 1024 1616
Color Temp As Shot              : 5019
WB RGGB Levels Auto             : 2180 1024 1024 1616
Color Temp Auto                 : 5019
WB RGGB Levels Measured         : 2087 1022 1025 1717
Color Temp Measured             : 4648
WB RGGB Levels Daylight         : 2236 1024 1024 1577
Color Temp Daylight             : 5200
WB RGGB Levels Shade            : 2608 1024 1024 1339
Color Temp Shade                : 7000
WB RGGB Levels Cloudy           : 2427 1024 1024 1450
Color Temp Cloudy               : 6000
WB RGGB Levels Tungsten         : 1570 1024 1024 2399
Color Temp Tungsten             : 3200
WB RGGB Levels Fluorescent      : 1949 1024 1024 2245
Color Temp Fluorescent          : 3763
WB RGGB Levels Kelvin           : 1141 1024 1024 3372
Color Temp Kelvin               : 2400
WB RGGB Levels Flash            : 2497 1024 1024 1438
Color Temp Flash                : 6214
Average Black Level             : 2048 2048 2048 2048
Raw Measured RGGB               : 415520 180628 178529 249230
Per Channel Black Level         : 2047 2047 2048 2048
Normal White Level              : 15165
Specular White Level            : 15677
Linearity Upper Margin          : 10400

This is true, so they aren’t truly neutral or accurate, even though we have a picture profile named neutral.