Aftershot Pro RAW rendering is darker?

[nex4]

I think the issue of Color Temp 5001 is a minor bug that when I select "Reset Everything", it will reset the Color Temp to 5001. If I select "As Shot" again, it will show me 6248 and color did not change.

But I found something VERY interesting. If I change the camera model to NEX-5N from NEX-3N, the histogram looks very close to the rendering done by IDC. I get the warm color seen from OOC JPEG.

exiftool -Model=NEX-5N -IFD1:Model=NEX-5N -SonyModelID=NEX-5N DSC00041.ARW

Everything default, but changed EXIF to NEX-5N

Notice the Color Temp is now 5675!

[nex4]

However, I am hit by the Color Temp bug now. When the EXIF is 3N, for the most part, I can control the White Balance using custom. The slider also works fine. But when EXIF is 5N, the slider just went crazy. So sad.

[Dutchmm]

That does seem like an interesting bug. It looks as though the older cameras (mine is the SLT-A55, which came out at the same time as the original NEX-5) have a crazy slider. And the newer cameras (the -3N must be supported, or else your RAWs wouldn't process at all, huh?) have a slider that work, but a "reset" or an "as shot" that produce the wrong results. Perhaps we could persuade the mods to move this thread to the bugs and suggestions forum?

[TheDude]

In case you are interested, this is darktable's output with standard settings: click me

left of the thin vertical line in the center is the wb setting "as shot" and on the right spot wb on the neutral background... "as shot" is pretty close I think.

[nex4]

I ended up changing the camera of the 3N studio photo to every NEX models supported by ASP.

Matrix:
NEX-3N, NEX-5N
NEX-5R, NEX-6
NEX-F3, OOC

Notice that white balance slider works on all except NEX-5N. Ironically, it appears to be the one with the closest color as OOC JPG.

The kicker is each of the picture, same RAW file from same source, has a different "As-Shot" white balance value. Range from 5675 for the NEX-5N to 7396 (!) for the NEX-5R.

But it is pretty clear that NEX-3N (upper left) photo is darker.

I enabled the built-in sharpening for the raw files because the OOC JPEG has been sharpened. Sharpening does changes the color a little but not by much.