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Morfeus wrote:
EXIF say Sony A350 on this one:
No suprise there, A350 along with A380 have one of best colors too.. And quite unique "feel" cause they are CCDs. A380 is actually last good CCD APS-C from Sony (there was A390 with CFA optimised for lower noise, which ended as color destruction).
Shame Sony never made FF CCD with CFA like A380. I would take it in a heartbeat..
A380 probably has same CFA as A900, except its CCD, which makes it look tad different. Color quality is way above its price level (SMI 86/82 for A380, A900 has 87/82). A350 isnt that good, but still its rather nice sensor in it..
Otherwise, from what you can easily get.. (colorwise)
1) Sony A900
2) Canon 1D/s MK3 (needs playing with color profiles, but "its there")
3) A99 (same as 1D/s MK3)
4) D700 (same as 1D/s MK3, normal profiles tend to overshoot red chanel)
5) Nikon D810 and D4s, Sony A7s (all look fine as they are, also all look colorwise very similar, same CFA?)
6) Fuji X system
None of these is particulary "filmic", but its not that hard to bend colors there, what you usually need for some color mimic is a lot of colors in that basic file.
Harder to get..
1) Kodak SLR/n, SLR/c, ProBack 645 (all are FF sensors, ProBack is 36x36mm) - preferably with Leica R lens
2) Fuji S5 Pro (S3 Pro too probably) - pair with Leica R lens
3) KM-7D, KM-5D (pair with Minolta or Leica R lens)
4) D2x (pretty much base ISO only camera)
Kodak and Fuji are bit unfriendly towards users. KM-7D is seriously DR limited (D200 bit less). All are old and might have issues (and most of them does).
Insane options..
1) Leica DMR for R8/R9 - looks like digital Ektachrome, has 16-bit output (like MFDBs), colorwise, you cant get much better than this.. but 10 mpix and 1,33x crop isnt exactly win, lack of AA is due low res bound to create issues - also still horribly expensive, with need to get batteries re-celled and if bought separated calibration to match body and DMR
2) pretty much any MFDB with Kodak CCD (I would probably pick those compatibile with H Blads or Sinar, tho look from Contax 645 is pretty sweet too) - but truth is, these are not that much about color as they are about "look"
3) Leica M8.2 (get RAW mod), Leica M9, Leica S2
Cheapo options..
1) Sony A380, Sony NEX-5N
2) Samsung NX11 (underdog, but if you know how..)
3) Olympus E-300, E-500, or even E-1 (all Kodaks with their CFA, noisy as hell tho)
4) Canon 5D (unique look, not that hard to get camera)
5) D200 (simply aint bad)
Some are old, yep..
Then you need to get some basic knowledge about colors. Shooting some film you want to emulate is almost mandatory, then find right RAW developer for what you want and after get some plugin to mimic film and play with that (Alien Skin Exposure, VSCO, Replichrome, Color Efex..).
Personally, I just like good colors and in PP I do whatever I want it to look like..
Otherwise, there is actually quite a lot of cameras that are colorwise good or nice (its not same thing always). For any color simulation, files which not break easily, high bit depth and high color accuracy are things you want. Unfortunately very few of these..
Edited on Jan 18, 2015 at 01:39 PM · View previous versions
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