roxics
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I've heard this term Color Science thrown around a lot these days. It's like the new Dynamic Range or Shallow DOF or whatever new technical term people learn and then becomes all the rage. But what is it really? We're not all engineers.
My assumption based on conversations I've read is that it's the particular tuning a camera manufacturer does to the way that sensor renders color. Yet it seems to be something they can carry over to various cameras, sometimes with sensors made by different manufactures. So it must be adaptable if every manufacturer has its own fairly uniform color science rather than every camera having its own. Yet it also seems to be something that happens early in the chain to the point where even raw files have that color science. Which means it must be a deeper thing than a LUT which seems to go on top of color science.
Speaking of LUTs, I'm under the impression that picture profiles cameras come with (neutral, vivid, etc.) are basically just built-in LUTs in everything but name. Am I wrong about this?
Why are there not multiple color science packages offered by the same manufacturer to change the way their cameras render color? Sort of like a digital filmstock that goes to the very bones of the camera to change the look? Why are we stuck with one color science per manufacturer? Maybe open it up to the public to sell/trade different color science packages the way they do LUTs. Why is that not a thing?
My assumption based on conversations I've read is that it's the particular tuning a camera manufacturer does to the way that sensor renders color. Yet it seems to be something they can carry over to various cameras, sometimes with sensors made by different manufactures. So it must be adaptable if every manufacturer has its own fairly uniform color science rather than every camera having its own. Yet it also seems to be something that happens early in the chain to the point where even raw files have that color science. Which means it must be a deeper thing than a LUT which seems to go on top of color science.
Speaking of LUTs, I'm under the impression that picture profiles cameras come with (neutral, vivid, etc.) are basically just built-in LUTs in everything but name. Am I wrong about this?
Why are there not multiple color science packages offered by the same manufacturer to change the way their cameras render color? Sort of like a digital filmstock that goes to the very bones of the camera to change the look? Why are we stuck with one color science per manufacturer? Maybe open it up to the public to sell/trade different color science packages the way they do LUTs. Why is that not a thing?
