Sony Alpha A6400 auto white balance

Which jpg profile did you use? What lens?

JJ2025 said:

Hi

I recently purchase a Sony Alpha A6400, i was little disappointed with the white balance, the colour is a little purple-ish, is this normal? check out the attached photos comparison with a Fujifilm x100s, Samsung galaxy S25+.& A6400

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Oh wow, thanks for the full EXIF data! It gave me a chance to dig into camera settings.

All three cameras are set to a specific camera color profile (Sony Standard, Fujifilm Provia, and Samsung doesn't say but it has to use something). These color profiles are designed by each brand to create their idea of pretty pictures, not accurate colors. And, oh my goodness, at least a few Nikons can be set to use AUTO color profiles!

In addition, what's "white" is different in each brand. How they shift and poke colors around to create white also depends on brand and affects the other colors too.

All this says is you'll always notice a subtle color difference between brands. It's normal. Shoot a different scene, and you may not appreciate the beauty of Samsung's shade of yellow, and so on.

The Sony A6400 has three AWB settings: Standard, Ambience, and White. I'm not sure, I don't think the Fuji X-100S camera model or Samsung has these options. One of the other Sony AWB settings may give you better satisfaction. Sony's Neutral Creative Style contains less "prettyfication" and may create a photo more to your liking.

One of the fixed white balances (Daylight in this case) or using a custom white balance may provide more color consistency.

If I haven't bored the poop out of you, and you'd like to find out more about human vs camera color reproduction, DPR member Jim Kasson has a series of articles starting here.

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Lance H

Thanks.. seems like it's normal.

Thanks for your reply. I use standard profile and i get the same effect on all my Lens

To add to @lehill's answer, the camera has customizable Picture Profiles, so you can simulate any color profile (read "look") from another camera or film you want. You can find multiple recipes online.

And to add some more, you can use RAW and with some software, map the colors to match another camera. In this case, the photo looks a bit underexposed, and I wonder if a slight boost to the exposure would help. A lot of the cameras allow fine-tuning of the color, but you have to be sure you have an accurate target and monitor to be sure it's accurate -- better to find an overall setting that works.