Discovering the SD15...

xpatUSA wrote:

In spite of the snide remark about users here, I have never seen on this forum any complaint about de-saturated greens with the SD14 (apart from yours). Unless you can produce a link or two to such complaints, I must assume that your memory is at fault.

Yes, you are quite right. It is only me. But, I am very sure of it. There have been lots of images posted in this very forum that absolutely do not look like other photos. Very desauturated greens for flower photos. It is more common than not IMHO. And I am very surprised that it seems like no one else cares. Maybe it is because I live in a very green country. So green is important to me.

I guess that you are referring to SD14's out-of-camera jpeg color accuracy and less than perfect WB, in which case I agree.

Might be. I have no idea whether the photos I have seen is OOC JPEG or not. That could explain a lot.

I will, this very day. Natural-looking healthy grass is hard to find around here but we've had some rain lately

I'm hoping we will not need spectrometer readings to complete this sub-discussion. I'll use a DP1s instead for comparison. Might provide Some Chroma numbers too. They would be a little more convincing that words like "greener", eh?

he he

Nte again, I do not doubt you can make images with healthy looking grass. I have seen that. It is still so that I have seen a surpringly high percentage of desaturated greens for flower photos.

And, it is totally possible that I have mixed up the images from pre Merrill crop 1.5 sensors. Cant remember it all. What I do remember is the green/magenta splotches for the SD14, but I assume the fix for that is doing noise reduction in conversion.

I will further state that the sensors are all quite close to to each other as far as sensor output is concerned

That I do doubt.

Then kindly publish response graphs for, say SD14 versus Merrill or Quattro that show they are not quite close.

Even though I can prove nothing, I do doubt it. The difference in behaviour is too large.

The response graphs found on the net are very sparse so you cannot compare sensor generations. And when one is found, it is not really sure what it shows.