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Is Old Fuji Color Better? Or Even Different?

Started Jul 25, 2020 | Discussions thread
FujiShooterCY Regular Member • Posts: 445
Re: Is Old Fuji Color Better? Or Even Different?

John Sevigny wrote:

Yes and yes. The differences may be harder to qualify. “Better” is impossible to define. And aesthetics can’t be measured. But as Fuji has grown they’ve shifted noticeably toward a less daring and more generic approach to color science. My xpro3 and x100v produce images that look a lot more like Sony-Nikon-Fuji. My xe2 and x100t tilt more toward and old school slide film look.

Ok, I agree. So I am going to conduct an experiment which will bring out the ability to process RAF from ANY Fuji X camera in the manner of ANY other one.

Is it a feasible approach, what do you think?

Plenty of people will deny this saying that if it can’t be quantified, it doesn’t exist. But look at a Van Gogh vs a Rembrandt. You’ll get almost unanimous agreement that Van Gogh was the OG colorist. This is where the science part of photography fails. It can’t easily be tested that way. But if we judge the pictures a camera kicks out on subjective, artistic merits, you’ll see some repeating patterns. Same with CCD sensors, which are certainly better in terms of color, much slower but undeniably different than CMOS sensors.

Are CCD really better in terms of colors, or is this just a matter of PP software defaults settings changing with years?

And yet another post on the same subject is here, maybe this one explain the approach better?

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