Error in FreeFlight 6. The inverted scale of the color temperature.
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Liger 1956
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I always thought that you set the white balance temperature to that of the scene and then the software adjusted the final image e.g. if you are shooting indoors under tungsten light then you would choose a 3000K white balance and the software would make the final image more blue, to about 5000K, to represent an image similar to that which the human brain perceives. When I was using film cameras I used different coloured filters either on the camera or in the darkroom under the enlarger to correct the colours. A blue filter was used to correct for tungsten lighting when the camera was loaded with daylight film.
That's right. Only in this situation, due to an error in the program, you will have to choose a 7000K or 8000K for the incandescent lamp instead of 3000K.
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The setting you decide to set in Freeflight 6 is to "tell" the camera what the colour temperature of the light source is.
So, if you set 3000K you are telling it that there is a warm (red) light source (e.g. tungsten light).
The camera then makes the image more blue to compensate for the warm light source you have said is being used.
Similarly, when you set a high colour temperature (e.g. your example of 8000K) the camera "thinks" there is a very blue light source and so warms up the image (makes it more red) to compensate.
The Freeflight 6 app is correct and is not inverted.
So, if you set 3000K you are telling it that there is a warm (red) light source (e.g. tungsten light).
The camera then makes the image more blue to compensate for the warm light source you have said is being used.
Similarly, when you set a high colour temperature (e.g. your example of 8000K) the camera "thinks" there is a very blue light source and so warms up the image (makes it more red) to compensate.
The Freeflight 6 app is correct and is not inverted.
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Yes, you are right. I confused myself. I decided that the color temperature shift is a direct indication to the camera of what I want to get as a result. It turned out that this was not the case.
Thanks for bringing attention to it; even though your initial observation was incorrect, you still learned about it and others also!
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