Custom D65 White Balance

[kanyck (Nick)]

There was a discussion of this matter on the following thread:

Confused about D50, D65, and CCT in white balance and color calibration modules

I recently started using the color calibration module instead of the white balance module for all my images. One thing that really confused me was why the color temperature of everything seemed wrong. For example, a photo in direct noon sunlight looks balanced at 3972K5000K instead of 6500K, like I would expect. I finally realized that if I set the illuminant for that same photo to “same as pipeline (D50)” and back to “D (daylight)”, the temp will be 5002K and the color looks right. Seeing that …