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Started Sep 4, 2019 | Polls thread
Thomas A Anderson Senior Member • Posts: 1,360
Your test is flawed so your conclusion will have no meaning.
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nnowak wrote:

OzarkAggie wrote:

You didn't have to exclude shooting data.

Yes, I did. Not all of these are APS-C cameras and the EXIF data would have made it obvious which was which.

Auto exposure can favor ISO, timing, or aperture.

I chose apertures for roughly similar DOF. Everything else was chose by the camera.

As some have questioned, what picture style was selected. Portrait or landscape, or...?

Picture style was "auto" and MyM3 explains how it works on the M cameras here

https://www.dpreview.com/forums/post/63064031

Time to fess up. You've had enough responses. Let's have the camera AND the exif for each one.

Getting a bit impatient? Afraid you voted for the wrong camera?

You have posted one scene that is in no way a true representation of how each camera will render various subjects.

Human skin tones are notoriously difficult to reproduce in a balanced, accurate, or pleasing way.  You have no humans in this test.  Your color variety and saturation intrinsic to the actual scene is extremely narrow.  There is zero control over the conditions in which the test is conducted as each monitor will reproduce these colors, luminance levels, and the scene dynamic range differently.  You have also allowed cameras to choose their own color profiles based on scene recognition, which may vary in effectiveness.  And that profile may end up being a neutral, flat one that isn’t indicative of the most pleasing color rendition the camera is capable of.

Maybe shoot ten scenes.  For each scene post five profiles from the same camera and vote.  Then put the winner for each camera up against each other for each scene.

Your test would be five images per scene per camera.  Then winners would go up against the same scene for each camera.  Then the results could be used to draw some conclusions.  And participants would have to be involved from all groups of brand ownership to prevent good guessers from tipping the scales.

So 5 cameras, 10 scenes, and five forums.  That’s only 250 pictures and a few thousand votes.  Can’t wait.  Maybe 5 scenes to make it easier?  At least half with people of four distinct ethnic backgrounds in both bright and low light scenes?  And then participants must use calibrated monitors set to sRGB.

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