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Originally Posted by Bill Pryor
Speaking of color temperature meters, it is very annoying to me that the camera refuses to tell us what the temperature is. It has to read it when you white balance, and it's no great leap to display it on the screen as all bigger chip cameras do. I don't know why they won't do that. In my big camera days I never used the old color temperature meter because I could do a white balance and it would tell me what the reading was on the various lights around a location.
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It might be because the custom white balance does more than just change the temperature, such as modifying the tint or color matrix. My only guess is that they hide this information because they are afraid it would confuse the customer.