Find the mired shift needed to convert one color temperature to another.
Converting kelvin to mired makes color shifts additive, so the difference is the filter strength needed to move between temperatures. Mired is the correct scale for color-correction gels, where a fixed filter always shifts a constant amount of mired.
White Balance Mired Shift
Mired shift = 1,000,000/target - 1,000,000/current
Mired shift = 1,000,000/target - 1,000,000/current Converting kelvin to mired makes color shifts additive, so the difference is the filter strength needed to move between temperatures.
Mired is the correct scale for color-correction gels, where a fixed filter always shifts a constant amount of mired.
This calculator takes 2 inputs: Current temperature, Target temperature. The pre-filled defaults are a realistic starting point — replace them with figures from your own environment for a result you can act on.