What's the temperature of daylight?

I shot with my CP5400 setting WB to daylight (direct sunlight) and when I open the raw file in ACR it shows a temperature of 4800. I was expecting at least 5500. I emailed Nikon imaging support to ask for the Kelvin equivalents of CP5400 white balance settings but they just directed me to their corporate offices.

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That's what is usually best for my D70... 4800/5000!
I'm not sure that in ACR those are "authentic" values (scientific light measures) but more of the "direct sunlight, shadows, overcast sky, etc." sort, clad in a continuous numerical value !

It works though...

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Thanks Jacques. Today I shot with Auto WB and noticed that I got a higher temp reading from ACR than I do with WB manually set to daylight, 4950 auto vs 4800 manual. I found that if I fine tune the daylight WB it will go from 4050 (+3 setting) to 5750 (-3 setting). I would have expected Nikon's scale to set higher temps with + settings but at least I now have more control. You may be right that Adobe is reading the WB on a somewhat arbitrary scale, not necessarily accurate Kelvin temperatures. I'll try Nikon again to see if they'll reveal the actual temperatures corresponding to the WB settings. Cheers.

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