Does Sony Own Or Pay Adobe??

Erik Baumgartner wrote:

Thanks, with Lightroom, a RAW file and a little know-how you can get the color to look however you want it to look. Whether you want your Sony files to look like Fuji's or the other way around, you can do that. There's a lot more to Lightroom beyond the default import settings and the basic slider adjustments that most people never really learn to make the most of.

RAW files are not images at all, just raw sensor data that can be interpreted and processed in many different ways. Whatever beautiful or horrible color you are seeing in Lightroom, Capture One (or whatever) was applied to the colorless RAW file by that editor. If the files from one camera can have great color, the files from a different camera can have great color too.

Some custom import settings and a different color profile (or customizing your own) will go a long way towards achieving better results in any editor.

I agree.  I never used the supplied profiles from ACR.  I always made my own "simple" profiles from a ColorChecker card.  I say simple because I didn't really do anything to tweak it.  It was just a way for me to get the same color regardless of which camera I was using.  Lately, I'm liking Adobe Color for my landscapes and birds, however.

Skin tones can be funny.  You can white balance the photo the way you think you should by using the eyedropper on a neutral patch in the photo.  But I have rarely found that to yield "acceptable" skin tones.  If I'm doing a people photo I almost religiously check CMYK values.  I'll set my WB to yield what I want in CMYK skin values.

In any event, I have used cameras going back to the Nikon D100 up to D850 and Z7.  And Fuji X-E3, X-T2, and X-H1.  I've never seen a noticeable difference in color output in my processed files.