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Old Skin Tone Formula vs Today's Skin Tone Formula

Started Mar 29, 2022 | Discussions thread
Tom Schum
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Old Skin Tones and old CCD color filters
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I've heard (or seen on the internet) that the color filters used in older CCD sensors such as the one in the S5 were stronger and narrower than the ones used today.

This limited the high-ISO performance of the CCD sensors.  I have a compact from those days and max ISO is 400.  And the images are fairly noisy at ISO 400, too.

Today, sensors have excellent high-ISO performance and there is plenty of performance margin to put the older, better filters back into the sensor.  Sure, instead of ISO 12,800 we might only be able to get good results at ISO 5000 (just a guess) but it would be a whole new world (or back to the old world, depending on your viewpoint).

A camera manufacturer could really stir up the industry by fixing the filters, but might have a hard uphill battle because processing software is not yet able to cope.  We could be back where the JPGs were gorgeous right out of the camera, though.  I'd like that.

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