Hi Stas,

I considered it might be an issue with the flashes but the thing is, its corrected by setting HR white balance to Auto.

Plus, I've metered it all to within 75k either side of 5560k.

I'm not sure what to do at this point except use Auto. If you can't replicate it then theres not much we ...

Stas,

To quote your post and answer your question: "When user-defined color is selected the images differ when shot from HR and shot regularly with no remote control, is that what it is?"

Yes, that is true. When I set white balance on the d800 manually to 5560k and I use HR to capture the image ...

Stas,

Yes, changes to white balance settings in HR are reflected in the live view.

The thing is, I know that the equipment I am using has accurate white balance because I've metered the setup and also checked in lightroom and photoshop. The issue is specific to HR.

So you think HR is unable to ...

I'm shooting high key macro isolation shots inside a 90cm lastolite cubelite. Setup is as follows: D800, Sigma 105 macro, 1/125, f11, 4x 300W flash heads with no modifiers set up as two as background, one key and one fill. I am using a made for purpose lastolite white seamless vinyl sheet for a ...