This looks a little warm in AUTO. The tungsten setting looks better. The 2,500 K setting is also good, if not a little too blue.

Most Auto WB settings balance correctly for tungsten if you have a bright tungsten light source in the image, or a lot of illumination. With less illumination most Auto WBs don't compensate completely and stay a bit orange. This is deliberate: they presume high light levels mean studio lights and that you want perfect accuracy, and that at lower light levels you'll prefer a pleasant warm tint to interiors.

Refrigerator bulbs are usually warmer colored than this. In this case I had some blue skylight filtering into my kitchen.

Indoors at night, low-wattage tungsten bulbs

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