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Color science can be a bit of a fallacy especially since most people are talking about in-camera JPEG colors.
Next, pleasing colors are not necessarily correct and correct colors are not always attractive.
I struggled with “Sony colors” initially years ago when I first got into Sony although it was mostly down to my lack of post processing skills. I was already shooting with Nikon and Olympus then. My preference was Nikon and Olympus colors, not that one was better than the other but rather, it’s all a matter of “preference”. Certain brand fanbois shills like to turn what is essentially a matter of preference into an absolute qualitative statement especially when it’s not even a problem of the RAW files.
The fundamental problem was not the Sony RAW files but a lack of a dedicated RAW developer that is optimised for Sony files for most users who are not sophisticated enough to create their own color profile.
Raw files don't really store any colors per pixel. They only store a single brightness value per pixel, Bayer interpolation takes place in the software opening the raw data. It’s the RAW developer that affects color the most, not so much the camera since the signals in the RAW file are not colors.
Canon, Nikon and Olympus always had their in-house designed native RAW developers.
Sony users get to use Capture One (“Express” version is free), a 3rd party RAW developer which personally was not properly optimised for Sony files and needed to be tweaked in the earlier versions. The latest version of Capture One however finally seems to have reached an entirely different level with much less tweaking necessary.
Addendum:
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Don't just take my word for it, read this link below for those who are more inclined towards reality instead of hot air and brand fanboism, stumbled onto it only today 7Jan22;
blog.kasson.com/the-last-word/roles-of-camera-and-raw-dev...
Silent night
T'was the night before Christmas.....
Color science can be a bit of a fallacy especially since most people are talking about in-camera JPEG colors.
Next, pleasing colors are not necessarily correct and correct colors are not always attractive.
I struggled with “Sony colors” initially years ago when I first got into Sony although it was mostly down to my lack of post processing skills. I was already shooting with Nikon and Olympus then. My preference was Nikon and Olympus colors, not that one was better than the other but rather, it’s all a matter of “preference”. Certain brand fanbois shills like to turn what is essentially a matter of preference into an absolute qualitative statement especially when it’s not even a problem of the RAW files.
The fundamental problem was not the Sony RAW files but a lack of a dedicated RAW developer that is optimised for Sony files for most users who are not sophisticated enough to create their own color profile.
Raw files don't really store any colors per pixel. They only store a single brightness value per pixel, Bayer interpolation takes place in the software opening the raw data. It’s the RAW developer that affects color the most, not so much the camera since the signals in the RAW file are not colors.
Canon, Nikon and Olympus always had their in-house designed native RAW developers.
Sony users get to use Capture One (“Express” version is free), a 3rd party RAW developer which personally was not properly optimised for Sony files and needed to be tweaked in the earlier versions. The latest version of Capture One however finally seems to have reached an entirely different level with much less tweaking necessary.
Addendum:
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Don't just take my word for it, read this link below for those who are more inclined towards reality instead of hot air and brand fanboism, stumbled onto it only today 7Jan22;
blog.kasson.com/the-last-word/roles-of-camera-and-raw-dev...