Due to popular downvoting, here is a similar relative-tint test with white balance locked.

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1. altforthissubreddit 12 months ago

   My [previous post](https://www.reddit.com/r/flashlight/comments/18btx9h/fyi_cameras_will_show_relative_tint_differences/) seemed to be focused on whether or not the white balance was locked. Personally I feel this is a strawman argument, as my point was that putting both beams in the same photo will show the relative difference (one being higher than the other in Duv) but the camera tends to exaggerate it. This was meant to be a counter-point to some recent posts that suggest the LH351D 4000K and SST-20 4000K are really rosy. When in my opinion, it is just the camera skewing the relative difference between the chosen lights in each photo.

   Cameras are tools, and the result you get depends a lot on how you use it. I certainly don’t think I’d ever argue cameras can’t capture reality, because I believe they can with careful use. But just because something is in a photo doesn’t mean it did capture reality.

   Anyway, in spite of this being tangential to my point (IMO), I decided to do a similar test with white balance locked.

   I will say that I am surprised the tint appears to be fairly well locked too. I don’t know if that differs by camera or what. For example, my phone doesn’t let you lock WB to a particular value, rather there’s just a rough slider that gets reset every time the focus point is re-chosen or the screen turns off. So I had to use a dedicated camera.