Film Simulation and White Balance

[Sandro_gsp]

 I have always used Provia, Astia, or ProNeg but I noticed since forever that the Fuji auto white balance seems to be heavily biased towards a "yellowish" tint.

For 99% of my pictures I have to tweak the white balance temperature ( K ) down by 200, 300, or 400K , in PostProcessing. 

Today, playing with different kind of film simulation , I run across the "Reala ACE" simulation.

My camera is the X-H2S , and the RealaAce is not natively available..  But I can force the "RealaAce" code inside the Raw file (using Exiftool), or I can use Photolab9.

With big surprise I discovered that Reala Ace renders the colors in such a way to look more faithful !
To be more precise, I can say that the white balance recorded by the camera looks perfectly fine.  No need to tweak it.

I tested pictures taken outside my window, and I checked the results forcing the RealaAce inside Exif and/or playing with film simulations provided by Photolab9+FilmSimulationPack.

Is it only my impression ?  Has anyone compared the White balance effect with different film simulations ?

 

Edited October 26 by Sandro_gsp

[jerryy]

I noticed some of what you are describing, but in my images, the difference seems more related to the body than the chosen simulation. Images from my X-T10 are slightly more yellow tinted than the ones from my X-T30 or X-T30 II (or the newer bodies have slightly more neutral auto white balances than the older one does if you want to think of it that way).

I shoot raw and use Provis as the base simulation in all of the bodies because it is so neutral to start with, I can tell during a quick image playback if I have over-cooked an exposure.

[Greybeard]

12 hours ago, Sandro_gsp said:

Today, playing with different kind of film simulation , I run across the "Reala ACE" simulation.

My camera is the X-H2S , and the RealaAce is not natively available.. 

Reala ACE has been available on the X-H2S since firmware version 7.0

[Sandro_gsp]

50 minutes ago, Greybeard said:

Reala ACE has been available on the X-H2S since firmware version 7.0

ooohhh I just checked ... you are right !

anyway for old pictures, the Exiftool or photolab9+FilmSImulatioPack are still necessary.