EOS Utility Tethered Shooting Kelvin Setting, SL3

[gambier]

I am new to tethered shooting and learning as I go, so far the EOS utility has been great but I can figure out how to access the white balance setting for a specific Kelvin temperature.  I can choose between all the presets my camera offers, as well as auto white balance (ambient and white focus).   I can set a custom white balance using the eye dropper but I cannot adjust the white balance manually by degree.  I can only assume this is possible based on the grey box and Kelvin label next to it, but it does not let me type into the box.  Is there a way to set a specific Kelvin temperature number in the EOS utility?  I am using a SL3 camera.  Thank you!

[gambier]

I am using a MacBook if that helps, tethered via USB cable.

[p4pictures · Accepted solution]

EOS Utility only allows the same capabilities as the camera it is connected with. 

The EOS Rebel SL3 does not have the Kelvin white balance setting that allows you to dial in a specific Kelvin value. Since the camera does not have that capability, it is not available in EOS Utility either. 

[johnrmoyer]

You might create and register up to three custom picture styles using the picture style editor and the EOS utility.

The picture style does not contain the color temperature in Kelvin, because at least two dimensions are needed to characterize color. The picture style allows changing contrast, saturation, and "tone". The Picture Style Editor also allows changing the shape of the tone curve.

Color temperature in Kelvin describes a point on a line through the color space. 

Picture Style Editor allows adjusting hue, saturation, and luminosity in a 3 dimensional color space. Kelvin would be one line through this 3 dimensional space. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV 

In the past, I have photographed a standard gray and used that to create a custom white balance for particular lighting. This seems to me the easiest, but does not give control of all dimensions of the color space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature 

The Canon picture style editor seems to me to use a different model of color space. 

https://global.canon/en/imaging/picturestyle/editor/index.html 

[gambier]

Thank you, I thought this might be the case.  I have access to White Balance Auto options for Ambient and White priority in EOS utility (which I don't believe I have in the camera body), so I thought perhaps there was also a possibility for adjusting by K degrees.  Thank you.

[gambier]

Thank you for the time and info, I will investigate these picture styles and see if that offers better control.