Does “Color Science” even matter?

paratom wrote:

JimKasson wrote:

paratom wrote:

JimKasson wrote:

paratom wrote:

to me it matters a lot how color comes out of camera and raw converter.

for example from x1d/x2d or my Leicas it comes much to my liking without having to spend much time in post processing.

Canon looks fine to me, with Nikon I sometimes struggled with some kind of yellowish tint.

How were you doing white balance?

loan a x2d and shoot some portraits and you know what I mean.

I usually use either auto or daylight. Since I allways shoot raw + jpg its easy to adjust wb later in case it doesnt look right. I am not talking about wb differences, more about overall color, given that wb is ok.

How can you have an overall yellowish tint if the WB is right?

Its not yellowish for all colors, but just for certain ones. If you manual white balance a Nikon and. a Canon and a Leica image, white will look white in all three images, but face color will look still different often. Canon will have a little more magenta, nikon a little more yellow, and of course it also depends on the raw converter and profiles.

It is common in commercial color profiles to bias Caucasian skin towards red or yellow or both. Magenta, not so much. Green, almost never.