Does “Color Science” even matter?

Started Jan 2, 2023 | Discussions thread
ggbutcher
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Re: Does “Color Science” even matter?

SrMi wrote:

ggbutcher wrote:

SrMi wrote:

In practice, nobody tunes Sony images to look like Leica's, nor Fuji images to look like Hasselblad's.

In multi-camera video setups they do. Cutting from camera to camera would look disconcerting if they didn't match the various cameras' color to one of the cameras as a reference. LUTs generated from target shots are used to do this. I don't know specifically regarding still photography, but if an art director is faced with integrating images from different cameras on a page they might do the same thing...

I wrote “images” which I assumed implies still photography.

Here's a video on the technique:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIclPqg4gU

I still assert it has a use case in multi-image layouts.

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