nikon 1 j5 - white balance A-B / G-M conversion into kelvin

[Deleted member 19071]

Hi, if anyone can help with this would be great.

I've found an old Nikon to play around with for personal work but I don't love the white balance basic adjustment options. I've not used it yet which is why I'm asking the questions first. Included the usual cloudy, fluorescent, sunny etc, I'm used to using kelvins on my Sony's and just wondered if there was a conversion chart of A-B/G-M values. So if I wanted 5000k what would the values be for A-B/G-M. Is the answer as basic as just putting the dot nearer the blues if I wanted a cooler option.

Thanks again.
Col.

 

[Nikon photographer]

You need to go into white balance, not fine tuning, there you will see the normal settings for Sunlight, cloudy, florescent etc, but I'm not aware of any settings for Kelvin, there isn't on the V1 I use.

 

[snerkler]

Hi, if anyone can help with this would be great.

I've found an old Nikon to play around with for personal work but I don't love the white balance basic adjustment options. I've not used it yet which is why I'm asking the questions first. Included the usual cloudy, fluorescent, sunny etc, I'm used to using kelvins on my Sony's and just wondered if there was a conversion chart of A-B/G-M values. So if I wanted 5000k what would the values be for A-B/G-M. Is the answer as basic as just putting the dot nearer the blues if I wanted a cooler option.

Thanks again.
Col.


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I think that just fine tunes the preset white balances. For example if you’re finding that when you have direct sunlight selected it’s consistently giving you photos that are too warm you can change the A-B balance so that by default the results are a bit cooler.

The A-B G-M grid doesn’t represent temps in kelvin per se. I must admit I’m surprised it doesn’t have kelvin option. If you shoot raw you can always change it in post. I know you can either jpeg too but it’s more limiting.