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Canon R6 bad/washed out colors?

Started 2 weeks ago | Discussions thread
José B
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Re: Canon R6 bad/washed out colors?

LennyLevino wrote:

I can't seem to get decent jpgs out of the camera. I have set the jpeg processing to "Standard" in the menu. Every picture I take looks like it has blown out highlights, washed out colors and low saturation. Comparing them side by side to the RAWs in either MacOS's Preview or in Windows shows a huge difference (not in favour of the jpegs).

Comparing them to jpegs from the 6D is just a sad sight.

Anyone else have or had this problem? What can I do to fix it (if possible)? Considering selling the camera if there is no fix. Because even though I shoot RAW, I also want useable JPEG files.

I don't have an R6 but the samples you showed are similar to my R6MKII shots of buildings and landscape (RAW vs. jpegs). When I first got the camera and looked at the RAW I thought that the shadows/blacks were blocked. But it's easy to adjust them on post. As to the jpegs, it's as if the exposure was adjusted to maybe half a stop and shadows are boosted. However, I have no complaints when it comes to skin tones in jpegs. Since I shoot more portraiture/sports than architecture/landscape I will continue to use the Canon jpegs because I like them a lot.

Not sure how you will fix the jpegs except perhaps tweaking it in the creative profile jpeg settings yourself.

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