R6 colour troubles

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Hi,

I just want to preface this with this; I am new to this. I have only been shooting and editing for eight months or so, so any advice would be appreciated.

i shoot canon R6. Let me start by saying that ergonomically it’s flawless, the lenses are lovely and the sharpness is great. However;

I have found that the colours are not what I would like. Even in others photos, I find the mirror less Canon cameras to produce less vibrant and interesting colours when compared to Sony or LUMIX. Sony especially seems to edit in a way I find more pleasing.

I have had to switch to switch to capture 1 due to adobes issues with CR3, but I’m wondering if it is possible to get that “Sony” look with R6 files?

sorry if this is a silly question in any way, but any help would be appreciated. I love shooting with the R6, but the files are not where I want them to be
 
Would you not want the colours to be accurate rather than a "Sony" look whatever that is. I have four camera of 3 different brands and the Raw image from all 3 look almost identical because I have calibrated each camera and thus have a bespoke profile for each camera which LR automatically selects from recognising the camera from EXIF data.

Dave
 
For some reason Adobe to not provide colour profiles for the Canon R6 and R5. I believe there has been issues between Adobe and Canon.
The Adobe Color profiles are shockingly bad but there is a resolution although it's going to cost you $25.

Canon Camera Profiles

www.colorfidelity.com
 
Don’t use LR any longer but you can just tweak the presets in any post raw developer to give you the “look” you want on output.

I only bother to apply a general change when dealing with olympus - it has a slightly warmer cast that is the sort of thing some cheap photlabs put on to make the prints more attractive.

Mostly I am using Nikon, MILC ( N1 and Z ) and dslrs- they all SOOC with std picture controls ouput realistic colours ( as do Canon ) which suites me and RAW processing is case by case.

You could try adjusting the in- camera jpeg settings on your R6 to see if you can get jpegs that are Sony like - it does help to be able to gets jpegs that look OK to you whether or not you do much work on RAW.

Both Affinity and DXO PL4 seem to have default profiles that look OK to me on the bodies I use.
 
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For me personally I want to be shooting raw over JEPG, and though capture 1 has fixed the issue with colours not being represented, there is something about the way Sony files look that has more vibrancy to me than a canon one. Is this just personal preference, or just the style employed by those who use either camera?
 
Have you tried Canon DPP
I haven’t used it for ages but I’m sure it’s bundled free with canon cameras and is an excellent raw converter just not as fancy as adobe
 
nadaras said:
For me personally I want to be shooting raw over JEPG, and though capture 1 has fixed the issue with colours not being represented, there is something about the way Sony files look that has more vibrancy to me than a canon one. Is this just personal preference, or just the style employed by those who use either camera?
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I don't think I understand the question. If you're shooting raw it doesn't matter, as @droj says above you can make them look how you like. There is a difference for JEPG and Video but this is not what you're using, right? Maybe I've misunderstood.
 
nadaras said:
Hi,

I just want to preface this with this; I am new to this. I have only been shooting and editing for eight months or so, so any advice would be appreciated.

i shoot canon R6. Let me start by saying that ergonomically it’s flawless, the lenses are lovely and the sharpness is great. However;

I have found that the colours are not what I would like. Even in others photos, I find the mirror less Canon cameras to produce less vibrant and interesting colours when compared to Sony or LUMIX. Sony especially seems to edit in a way I find more pleasing.

I have had to switch to switch to capture 1 due to adobes issues with CR3, but I’m wondering if it is possible to get that “Sony” look with R6 files?

sorry if this is a silly question in any way, but any help would be appreciated. I love shooting with the R6, but the files are not where I want them to be
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It's digital - imitation imaging. Can't you just fake whatever colors you wish in post?
 
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Winslowe said:
It's digital - imitation imaging. Can't you just fake whatever colors you wish in post?
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When I shoot digital I can tweek the colours in post nearly as good I can when I print from film in my darkroom.
 
TimHughes said:
I don't think I understand the question. If you're shooting raw it doesn't matter, as @droj says above you can make them look how you like. There is a difference for JEPG and Video but this is not what you're using, right? Maybe I've misunderstood.
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I do understand the OP's point of view a little - my first DSLR was a Sony A58, and the raw files just naturally made me want to produce vibrant and contrasty images. After moving to Nikon it felt 'right' to develop images that were more muted, and on returning to Sony there's something that invites me to make the colours pop a bit (perhaps that's why I process into Mono so much now?). I can imagine the R6 output to be a bit dull & flat compared to Sony. There have also been grumbles about Sony's 'colour science' in the past being different to what some expected from their canikons.

However I also agree that colour is 100% in the eyes and hands of the processor with a raw file. Want it to pop - push those sliders to the right. want it to be muted - push to the left. If you always want it like that then create a preset that gets applied to images on import & they'll always have that look after.

Or buy a Sony. ;)
 
redsnappa said:
When I shoot digital I can tweek the colours in post nearly as good I can when I print from film in my darkroom.
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Right. In fact, I think it's easier on the computer than in the darkroom, if only because you can see the results immediately on your monitor versus having to process a test print. I never cared to work in the darkroom or on a computer, so shot transparency film and now expose digital the same way. I only hit the shutter button when everything in the scene is to my liking, It's incredible to me how little one has to know about composure and exposure, as long as one is adept at Photoshop!
 
Not sure about your actual canon model but with most digital cameras should have the option in the set up menu to change the colour saturation ,vibrancy of how the pictures are displayed on screen . Although photos can be changed in processing it should upload to your computer as shot .
This will give you a rough idea of how you want the photo to look in the end and you can then process them to achieve that look, or if your shooting in j.peg that’s your colour profile
 
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You must be the first person that actually wants Sony colours :ROFLMAO:

What you are seeing is probably not canon colour but washed out Adobe colours.
Not sure how well capture one works for canon though.
As suggested above first try editing in the default canon software and see if you are happy.
Regardless if you shoot RAW you can basically change anything you want in terms of colours.
 
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