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Import Nikon1 J5 images with LR "Auto" white balance all green!

neilhunt

NDH
Joined
Feb 11, 2019
Messages
33
Location
California
Lightroom Experience
Power User
Lightroom Version
Cloud Service
Lightroom Version Number
14.0.1
Operating System
  1. macOS 15 Sequoia
I found a weird problem with N1J5 photographs which are all green.
The camera's auto white balance is not great - a lot of snow and ice pictures are far too blue, so at some point in the past (raw model 5), I applied "LR Auto" to many of these pictures, which have all recently reverted to lurid green.
The settings are: WhiteBalance: Auto, Temperature: 2000, Tint: -150, and AutoWhiteVersion=134348800 (that last isn't available without a data inspector like jF data explorer)

If you re-apply "Auto" nothing happens. But if you apply "As Shot" then "Auto", it goes back and does something reasonable.

I wrote a little plugin that finds all the photos with the aforementioned settings, and applies the white balance fix above. If anyone needs it, let me know.
I fixed several hundred pictures; will be interesting to see how long they stay fixed!
Fortunately, the keepers to which I had applied custom white balance settings all seem stable.

I fixed this in LR 14.0.1, but I have seen this issue several times in the past with previous versions, just never bothered to investigate.
 
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