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galenapass wrote:
I am a little baffled. I often see posts about camera x's colors vs. camera y's colors. For example, this was just posted on another forum.
"I loved shooting the D800e and miss the resolution and DR but not the greens and yellows. Canon colors are what made me switch from Nikon last year."
Years ago, I had a Nikon D200, then bought a Canon 20D. I loved the colors coming out of the D200 but soon discovered that with a little bit of RAW manipulation, I could make the 20D files look exactly like the D200 files. For a long time after that, and over the course of many cameras (D700, D2x, D600, 1DII, 1DIII, 1DIV, 1Ds II....I have been a long time dual system user), I have always found that the RAW files from these cameras could more or less be made to look like whatever one desires. Granted, if one is shooting with a Foveon sensor, there can be a color output difference. So I am not talking about color differences between fundamentally different sensors - eg Bayer vs. Foveon. But, are the color differences from Canikon Bayer sensors really there - or just imagined, or perceived mostly from those that shoot JPEG?...Show more →
It's my opinion that any differences in senors can be overcome with software. I'll use Fujifilm for an example since I'm quite familiar with their cameras. Previous to going over to Fuji, I shot with a Canon DSLR. I loved the resolution and even the color. That all changed once I saw my first set of pics from Fuji's SLR's. The colors were incredible. I cant define what it is about the colors, but the difference was clear as day to me. However, I was a Canon shooter with 4 L lenses. I was not going to move over to Fuji.
After awhile I picked up a small Fuji compact, the F10. Wow! Again the colors were awesome. The sensor between the S5 Pro and F10 was totally different, yet the colors were clearly of the same family. Still committed to Canon I picked up a few more compacts as the years went on and then finally broke down and got the S5 Pro. I was in color heaven. Sadly, I joined a dying breed as Fujifilm walked away from their customer base and did not produce any more SLR's. A lot of people were left unhappy with that.
It took a few years but Fujifilm came back to serious cameras with the X100. Again a totally different sensor, but colors from the same family.
So with regards to Fuji, it didnt matter if the sensor was SuperCCD HR, SuperCCD SR II, SuperCCD EXR, or CMOS. They all had the same colors. Software made the difference.
Surely Canon and Nikon have different approaches to color with their own software. This is why people have certain preferences for one brand over the other.
You are correct that a RAW image can probably be made to duplicate another brand. In practice I think this is much harder than it sounds and is not worth the effort.
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