Sony vs canon

[Drudkh]

Definitely jpegs... I was shooting with someone at the school's orientation in the field facing the sun... the other guy overexposed and the washout was terrible... while I also overexposed, the colour vibrance was easily much better... I notice that the Canons don't handle high contrast colours very well... everything gets normalised so that the overall image tends to look flat... at least that's my experience so far...

In such a case, I may agree on this.

 

[Rashkae]

In such a case, I may agree on this.

Yup. But for local tastes, that "flattened" color profile tends to get the most "thumbs up" in the P&P section. They seem to prefer overexposed, washed-out pics.

I don't. :devil:

 

[boombox]

Honestly the noise issue is not that great with PP, grain software great stuff can be made.

Actually the noise issue is simply overrated. See how noise free the a500/550 is for high iso outputs.

I've gathered a read that might help explain things - what is evident here is that different manufacturers handle and tweak their cameras differently... so thus there are different colour responses and noise performance.

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/847088/2#7908771

 

[Rashkae]

I've gathered a read that might help explain things - what is evident here is that different manufacturers handle and tweak their cameras differently... so thus there are different colour responses and noise performance.

http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/847088/2#7908771

Yup, exactly. Sony focuses more on color separation, which is great for printing.

 

[TME]

Yup. But for local tastes, that "flattened" color profile tends to get the most "thumbs up" in the P&P section. They seem to prefer overexposed, washed-out pics.

I don't. :devil:

Yeah I prefer Fuji colours to Kodak colours... maybe most of the pros used Kodak in the past and so they prefer the blander, flatter colours of the Kodachrome film compared to the bright brilliant and often over-saturated colours of Velvia... I prefer an in-between colour palette but the Canon is way too flat for my liking... Minolta was the best... Sony sometimes tend to overcook the colours when using DRO Advanced +3...

 

[MontoyaSG]

Yeah I prefer Fuji colours to Kodak colours... maybe most of the pros used Kodak in the past and so they prefer the blander, flatter colours of the Kodachrome film compared to the bright brilliant and often over-saturated colours of Velvia... I prefer an in-between colour palette but the Canon is way too flat for my liking... Minolta was the best... Sony sometimes tend to overcook the colours when using DRO Advanced +3...

Probably because the shadow areas have darker tones thus higher colour saturation when DRO is used??

 

[TME]

Probably because the shadow areas have darker tones thus higher colour saturation when DRO is used??

Not really, DRO affects the color tone of the whole photo even though it's supposed to pull out the shadows... Sony tends to render a red cast especially when using DRO... I notice this when I print using an Epson... the red cast extremely pronounced when printed using the canned Epson profiles... but when I clean up the red cast using the colour balance adjustment in PS4, then the image prints very well...

 

[Rashkae]

Yup. I usually don't use DRO and just shoot in RAW. The colr separation and the tonal gradation is just really awesome...

 

[boombox]

Yup, exactly. Sony focuses more on color separation, which is great for printing.

Yup, the CFA on the A900 for example, is denser, and hence requires more amplification. The result is better colour, more noise.



I've got people in my institution who are non a mount users getting wowed by the direct output of the camera - it's the colours.

 

[bengchiat]

Sony Steady Shot inside = win

win? for pple with parkinson maybe.

 

[Francis247]

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