Does Hasselblad Phocus only enable white balance and noise reduction for RAW files?
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In Hasselblad Phocus 3.3.6, some adjustment options such as White Balance and Noise Filter are unavailable when I open JPEG files. Is this because Phocus only fully supports Hasselblad RAW formats, and are those tools intentionally limited or disabled for JPEGs?
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Phocus primarily fully supports Hasselblad 3FR and 3F files with more limited support for other format files.
This is true for most RAW converters. Some do try to offer some/all options to JPEG as well, but since they lack the information that RAW files still have, it is a different algorithm that has to interpolate the missing information, while RAW white balance correction is relatively easy. My personal guess is that most developers think that RAW is the format that people use to edit their picture.
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Yes. Based on the manual, Phocus "primarily fully supports Hasselblad 3FR and 3F files" and offers more limited support for other file formats such as JPEG.
So if White Balance, Noise Filter, and similar controls are missing or disabled for JPEGs, that is expected behavior rather than a setup problem. This is common in RAW-focused software: RAW files retain original sensor data, which makes adjustments like white balance more flexible and accurate. JPEGs already have processing baked in, so those edits are more limited and may not be implemented at all in a RAW converter.
In short, Phocus is designed mainly around Hasselblad RAW workflow, and those particular tools are effectively RAW-only in Phocus.
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