Camera LCD vs raw on pc monitor, color cast

Question

Dear all, I have this doubt about my 5D mk ii. The image displayed by the camera LCD is very different in comparison to the file dislapyed by DPP on my monitor. I did not a calibration , but I tried also a couple of other monitors just in case. The difference is not only in saturation and contrast, but also in a different cast: magenta in the LCD camera vs more Green in the pc monitor. Is the camera applying some kind of preset to the raw in the LCD? If yes, how to disable this function, at least for the color cast?  I use the faithfull preset in my picture style, so I don’t understand why this pretty big difference. Thanks in advance

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progster wrote:
Dear all, I have this doubt about my 5D mk ii. The image displayed by the camera LCD is very different in comparison to the file dislapyed by DPP on my monitor. I did not a calibration , but I tried also a couple of other monitors just in case. The difference is not only in saturation and contrast, but also in a different cast: magenta in the LCD camera vs more Green in the pc monitor. Is the camera applying some kind of preset to the raw in the LCD? If yes, how to disable this function, at least for the color cast?  I use the faithfull preset in my picture style, so I don’t understand why this pretty big difference. Thanks in advanceThe camera's WB default is "Auto", and it will try to assess the ambient color temperature and make an intelligent guess. If it guesses wrong (and some models are much better at it than others, especially when tungsten or fluorescent light is present), you can always fix it in post processing. DPP gives you plenty of options - although, annoyingly, it doesn't keep track of the closest color temperature to the WB value it inferred, and the "color temperature" WB setting always starts at 5200 K (Canon's definition of "daylight").