Does “Color Science” even matter?

Started Jan 2, 2023 | Discussions thread
JimKasson
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Pleasing vs accurate color
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yogi4fitness wrote:

Again, I am not saying color science doesn't matter. All I am asking is where it fits in the practical scheme of things. For example, would you buy a glitchy camera that has accurate colors? Would you buy a lens thats gives you distorted images but accurate colors?

As I said maybe this calls for a new poll 😀

Very few users want accurate color. Most users want pleasing color. There are applications where accuracy is an important goal, and the most effective way to deal with that seems to be to add more spectra to the captured channels, restrict the number and variety of the illuminants, and do the same with the subject reflectance spectra. It is theoretically possible to build a three channel Luther-Ives camera, but there are drawbacks to trying to do that. I know of no commercial camera that claims to meet that criterion.

The design  of a LI camera is an engineering problem. The science has been worked out for decades.

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