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Canon EOS R6 colors vs older Canon cameras

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J A C S
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Re: Canon EOS R6 colors vs older Canon cameras
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dpfan32 wrote:

I shot at nearly golden hour time in January 2023 with wonderful warm sun light and little snow here ant there. It looked gorgeous to my naked eyes!

So I was glad to have a Canon camera with me which potentially can capture all the colours and make the scene in the Canon way look a little better

Now I will show you with what I have to deal with:

Camera Landscape profile in Lightroom Classic CC

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I tried to edit it in the way like I always did with my Canon cameras.

This is the JPEG SOOC with Fine Detail picture style applied in camera

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Strange JPEG. It doesn't represent the scene I looked at.

The second photo is in Adobe RGB according to PS and uncalibrated according to XnView MP. Is everything color managed on your end? Also, it has contrast and saturation set to +2. In Landscape mode, they are already elevated, I would set them to 0. BTW, it does not look bad.

I tried and fiddled around... And in the end I wasn't able to achieve a good result at all. So did not the Canons own in-camera software for JPEG. I assume it would have been easy with any other older Canon camera like the R, which I had and the RP which I still own.

Picture Style Camera Landscape applied in Lightroom

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This is not nearly what I saw in person. Should I fiddle around with the color temperature sliders? Or go in the HSL? Never needed this things on any other Canon camera I owned for such an easy landscape scene.

It looks OK to me. The lighting is a bit harsh though.

I don't have words to explain what happened. Do I have a mixture of Sony and Nikon Color Science in my R6? Seems to me like that.

I was in January 2022 with my old trusty Canon EOS 6D Mark II at the same place maybe a little later in the day.

6D Mark II exactly same settings applied as above with the wonderful Canon Landscape Picture style, at least the one for the 6D Mark II. Oh yes!

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The light is much different, see the orange horizon.

So I think this is a matter of taste.

Do I want to spend half an hour fiddling around on the R6 image to get it look to what I like? As an amateur maybe not.

I have the EOS RP. It is as easy to edit the files like it was on the 6D Mark II. A few basic sliders and the wonderful Camera Landscape profile applied and boom there it is!

I'm not saying that the R6 colours are bad but they behave unusual compared to all my previous Canon cameras. For my editing experience they are too difficult to edit the way I perceived the colours of all my other Canon cameras.

One more thing which has to do with colours as well:

Very strong Moire on the roofs. Edited in Lightroom to taste.

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A crop from the image above edited in Lightroom to taste

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The settings you used are rather extreme, as the EXIF shows. Perhaps the aliasing is in the RAW already but you should try the default settings first.

I haven't seen this amount of Moire on any other camera I owned including Sony A6000, A6300 ( I had maybe one photo of roofs where I was not sure if this is Moire or not), A7, A7R, A7R II and Olympus OM-D E-M5 Mark II, M1 and M1 Mark II cameras.

This amount of Moire makes me think the camera must have been defective.

Highly unlikely.

Yes I know there is a Moire brush in Lightroom I never had to use so far. But I have to brush every time I'm photographing something with pattern.

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