Re: Utility of dynamic range beyond a certain point
ilkka_nissila wrote: gdanmitchell wrote: ilkka_nissila wrote:
Yes, you can edit the colors but for high-volume photography it may not be that practical to spend a lot of time doing that, depending on the priorities of the photographer.
On the other hand, if there is, as you suggest, a specific and objectively measurable difference in the color from the systems you should be able to simply create a preset (or some kind of profile) that could be applied in bulk with hardly any effort or time required.
In other words, making the color from camera A look like the color from camera B would not likely require a lot of image-specific processing at all, FWIw.
That's not really true as the full continuous spectrum of light striking the sensor is filtered by the color filter array and the spectra of different filters can be different in different implementations and this reduces the full spectrum of light into just three values. The three values will be different between the different CFAs, depending on the spectrum of the incoming light and the CFA spectra, and there is no way to un-filter the light after those CFAs to make a mechanistic algorithm that would reproduce the colors from one camera based on images from a different one. The information is simply not there in the recorded file to make this happen.
In reality, no sense provides the Perfect Holy Grail Of Color, and when we include variations in lighting color (directly, reflections, and light coming through things like leaves) color is highly variable. I suppose that if you are working under color temperature controlled lighting all of the time you can minimize these issue, but otherwise…
Given all of those variables, in my experience you can get pretty much any sensor to look the way you want it too if you are proficient at post.
YMMV.
Jun 16, 2026 at 03:15 PM
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