Color science is a subtle thing that nonetheless generates a lot of passionate debate among photographers. Can you really tell the difference, though? Which brand do you prefer? This fantastic video takes a look at four popular brands to help you pick.
Coming to you from Jay P. Morgan from The Slanted Lens, this great video comparison looks at the color rendition of the Nikon Z8, Panasonic S5 II, Canon R6 II, and Sony a7R V and also shows how using a Datacolor Spyder Checkr Photo, you can match the output of multiple cameras to ensure consistency across your workflow. While the results show that each camera has its unique color science, they also show that with the right tools and techniques, it is possible to achieve a uniform color output. This is particularly valuable in situations where photographers use different camera brands simultaneously or work with a second shooter. On the other hand, it does take a certain amount of work in post-processing to match the colors, and if you'd like to minimize that extra effort, it is worth taking a careful look at which brand you prefer. Check out the video above for the full rundown from Morgan.
If you calibrate your sensor with any colour checker xrite / data color / calibrate it should create an profile so your camera will match the colour of any other camera. The proces is automated... No need to do any type of adjustment by eye... It works exactly the same way as if you are calibrating your two monitors.
Yes, once you've fully implemented the Xrite calibration system, you've replaced your camera "color science" with Pantone's "color science."
And as well, Canon (and Nikon, I don't know about Sony) have provisions to create customized Picture Styles that change the "color science." It's a one-time process using the same tools as editing in Lightroom or Photoshop.
Once upon a time, "color science" was a factor in system choice. Now, color science is just a setting.
Doesn't your monitor have color science? So when you calibrate your monitor you replacing EIZO color science for xrite color science? Do you know anything about product design or designer clothes photography? Pantone color? Wide gamut?
Calibration tool isn't a preset or LUT . It's an accuracy measuring using physicaly displayed chart as an reference where icc profile is adjusted to display or create most accurate reproduction. Unless you can show your camera what primary colors of RGB, CMYK and diferent skin color looks like with additional gray scale chart every camera you know of is only guessing how the colour looks like and reproduction of the color isn't accurate enough.
Do you calibrate you monitor and printer? Why? Isn't that the same reason?
Speaking of Canon, do you know that you get the best color reproduction from Canon camera in Canon Photo Professional? Adobe LR /CR is probably one of the worse when talking about RAW development modules. Anyway I think that you as a portrait photographer use CaptureOne
None of that makes any difference (or, conversely, it makes the same difference) regardless of what camera system you choose. My point is that the "color science" of the camera system is fungible, it's a setting, so it's not significant in choosing the system.
It has nothing to do with choice of system.. Its all about matching 2 or more camera color and contrast output in raw format without the actual need of matching it by eye. Also there is a need for designers to exact color match... You can't do this by eye. You can take the artistic approach to color when you know your client is ok with it, but in some cases it is not possible. Some clients will depend on color accuracy. You understand the term " color science" wrong. Color science isn't preset, just like contrast of your lens, or moire, chromatic aberaeron, demosaicing..
It is like saying that any car will have the same driving abilities and all you need to do is change the drive mode in the system menu.
That's my point: It has nothing to do with the choice of the system. Even within a system, such as within Canon, the "color science" of Canon's current models is not consistent.
I'm still talking about the article and video...are you?
Not sure about other cameras, but we have 2x R6 and they are same. I haven't seen much difference between R6 and 5D mk4 or 6D mk2. But when I got sony a7 iii it was different... What cameras whiting the same system you compared and found them different?
The slight color shifts introduced by the lenses are a confounding factor. All manufacturers have their own proprietary formulations of glass and coatings and, try as they may, none of them will be 100% color neutral in light transmission throughout the visible spectrum. The effect may be slight but it still is a factor that should be eliminated. To get a purer comparative result perhaps all the cameras in this test should have used the SAME lens.