Which Camera Has The Best Color - Canon, Nikon, Lumix or Sony? Do You See The Difference?

[@carldaniel3155]

I would've liked to see the comparison without the colour checker... to see what you get on a typical raw and jpeg out of each camera.

[@TheSlantedLens]

That is a good point. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[@DavidBennettplus]

Yes, please do it - @@TheSlantedLens

[@Muchtoobizy]

I totally agree. I would like to see the comparison using auto white balance on each camera. My fast-shooting street photography style does not allow for using colour checkers. So what interests me is the AWB capability of each camera.

[@mousepotatoc2566]

Yeah, why didn't he let us see the pictures before he edited them? It seems kinda biased because he changed them from the original look.

[@ononearts]

Lumix colors, dynamic range from light to dark and highlight rolloff look most pleasing to me- the images look almost 3 dimensional. Very happy with all my Panasonic cameras! The DataColor Spyder Checker works in DaVinci Resolve, too.

[@TheSlantedLens]

Great to hear. Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[@Avinash-wg7xl]

i have nikon z6 and sony a6400... by far sony colours are worst straight out of camera

[@winngh]

I shoot both system though not the same models but I have some great colours out of the Sony system unedited. I've never had anyone complain.

[@sanujames2853]

Sony👎

[@TheSlantedLens]

Nikon does have really great color.

[@True.Motive]

Try sony camera and sigma art lenses, you will be surprised. I also own Fuji and love its colors.

[@True.Motive]

I have a7IV, Sony 85 GM and sigma 24-70 art lens. I love the colours from sigma combo with Sony for its colours and sharpness. Sony 85 1.4 GM is technically superior but lack’s colours.

[@raywu6787]

When the color card is used outdoors or indoors, it will be affected by the light pollution of the ambient light at the photography scene and turn into other colors. If you use it as a white balance tool, you will always get distorted color reproduction results. If it is correct, use the directional white balance filter DCC40 to lock the white balance at the shooting scene, reset the white value of the camera scene to zero, and accurately lock the color temperature and hue value. In this way, you can take photos and videos with true and perfect colors directly with the camera at once. Personally, I think Panasonic cameras have the most standard and perfect colors.

[@carldaniel3155]

A Canon R6 colour tip... when editing in LR or ACR in the calibration section adjust the blue sat slider +30-60 and green slider +20 the colours 👌 now pop and zing... also matches my Fujifilm colours beautifully 😍

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thanks for sharing that great tip!

[@m0nztam0nk]

Ive shot almost every brand extensively (Fuji, Sony, Canon, Nikon, olympus) and i disagree that they are the same. Yes, in excellent lighting with a colour checker you can get all cameras to look very similar. But in actual shooting, weddings, in-house, outdoor portraits with changing light, ever brand delivers quite different color tonality in raw, that responds very (!!!) different to editing. Sony for example exhibits a severe red/pink pus in darker skintones thats very hard to eliminate while keeping the other skin with enough colour. It pushes bright greens and reds much harder then the other colours. Fuji, completely different, pushes magenta into the skintones only, desaturates yellows and greens a lot when pushed in the edit… Sonys issues are enough to lush me away from their otherwise excellent lineup (love their lenses and approach to size and weight)…but the colours always just „fall innthe wrong place“. I can achieve what i want but it takes forever. Fuji does it best, Canon delivers amazing warm/moody images that look very smooth, but have a bit of an orange shift that can be overwhelming… So no, in daily shooting outside a studio scene they are very different and the files tend to break when i completely color match them….

[@TheSlantedLens]

We are saying that you can color match them. Not that they are the same.

[@m0nztam0nk]

@@TheSlantedLens and i agree…sorry for the rant, but to my trained eye there seem to be huge differences. However, you are surely correct, that for most people it wont matter.

[@dmgfilmproductionandphotog1567]

i thought you will say lumix in the end. i guess you will love lumix in editing. 😂

[@thomasanderson5929]

How would you rank Olympus? Any thoughts on how it compares to Canon?

[@m0nztam0nk]

@@thomasanderson5929 olympus files are amazing. Much (!) better then Sony or Panasonic, yet still very natural rendering. Olympus to me simply doesnt keep up in Image Quality because its mft. If Olympus did Full Frame id believe Nikon or Olympus would be my top choices. But if Noise and Dynamic range and DOF arent priorities (For instance: Bird shooting) Olympus can seriously deliver!

[@hooch1111]

Besides color accuracy, there's difference how colors are transitioning - some wedding photographers move away from Sony because of rough color transitioning, especially skin colors. This is only visible under pixel peeping, but it's there.

[@markkrell7845]

Is sensor color depth curical to the result? Nikon & Sony are with high resolution sensors while Canon & Lumix are 24M sensor only. It seems all the 4 in high res or all the four in low res more fair.

[@AaronWilsonTalks]

One of the best photography pages on KZbin. Please don’t stop making videos

[@MichaelFrederickPhoto]

I have the R6, coming from several Nikons. Took me a good 14-15 mths before I found a color profile I really liked. Using the DPP software really helped!!! I have mine set to PORTRAIT and M2 B2 on the WB, Now I have a X-H2 as well and standard Provia and AWB looks even better !

[@carldaniel3155]

Wow 👌 I'm in the same situation... love the camera but colours are slightly off! Can I confirm the following please. Do you use highlight tone priority D+ or D+2? Clarity at zero? Jpegs or Raw thank you

[@MichaelFrederickPhoto]

@@carldaniel3155 HTP is off. Clarity +1. ooops I stand corrected. its FAITHFUL. my numbers are 4,3,3,1,1,1 DPP. is an awesome tool. you can dial in the colors and then mimic them back to the camera.

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thanks for sharing your insights!

[@ElementaryWatson-123]

Shooting Nikon for the last two years spoiled me. I never got to the point I liked Canon colors from RF cameras. Sometimes they are just fine, but too often, especially when shooting indoors I can't make raw file look as good as Nikon. I think Nikon has the best blues out of any camera I tried and Canon has the weakest blues, even turn pink sometimes.

[@sacredxgeometry]

I would have sold that R6 if it took me that long to like it 😂😂😂

[@longrider9551]

Color science is the tribal scream when some fanboy wants to argue, its no longer an issue with new cameras and advanced editing

[@TheSlantedLens]

We really do have a lot of great tools at our fingertips!

[@moomin534]

Some people have good vision and wider color detection range than other.

[@sacredxgeometry]

Color science is dependent on what the RAW image input naturally does to generate the white balance, and process the metadata of an image.

[@Households1234]

Great infomercial ! You alway do an excellent job and encourage me to buy your client’s products.

[@TheSlantedLens]

LOL. Glad you found it worthwhile!

[@Aviciiz]

Is it me or does the Lumix increase the luminance of her skin a bit making it pop ever so slightly...?

[@TheSlantedLens]

It is a beautiful image!

[@carldaniel3155]

Please compare without the colour checker... in real world you can't use the tool for general shooting. The pictures I've seen from each manufacturer all look very different! You need to know if you like the jpeg/raw files a specific brand... My choice for colours = Fuji, Nikon, Canon, Sony (never dealt with Lumix).

[@wahdigitalstudio]

I like Fuji colours the best!

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thanks for sharing your preference!

[@jakilahmoulien9070]

I like Leica Hasselblad and Nikon colours💕

[@mikepenney5726]

This is NOT how you are supposed to use the color checker.... You are supposed to use their software to "read" the color chips in a photo then build a color profile for each camera which matches the card. If you followed the instructions, the colors would be exactly the same from camera to camera IF you had the same lighting....

[@memcrew1]

Exactly!

[@ChongLisDriveThru]

yeah, I don't get this at all. This video seems like its skipping the whole process of making the color profile that matches the cameras. All it's showing is a White Balance click and a white and black point click. And he doesn't even use the correct terms for those things?! This is a BAD video if you want to know how to make a profile... I guess it could be about the small tweaks you make AFTER you made the profile...?

[@PatrickHuynh-c2x]

Which camera is #1,2,3, and 4?

[@TheSlantedLens]

Watch the video. We tell you in the video.

[@joelgermain1988]

Just got the Sony right, but I thought the Pany was Canon because it has a slightly higher exposure compare to the other one. it seems I need to rethink that. Thanks for all the info. I wanted to use spyder color for along time but never really sure if it is worth it in my workflow.

[@TheSlantedLens]

It might be worth it for you!

[@dmgfilmproductionandphotog1567]

in thought #2 is sony. but when i saw several reviews sony a7iv vs lumix s5ii . lumix win low light and dynamic range. didn't not expect the review here is a7V😂

[@marin_real_estate_photography]

LOL! I got the Nikon and Canon right, but somehow I swapped the Panasonic and Sony shots!?!?!?! I wonder if there is a big difference in color between the S5II and the original S5, since I own the original S5 and it tends to look a lot more magenta than a lot of other cameras.

[@TheSlantedLens]

Good question. I haven't compared the two.

[@dmgfilmproductionandphotog1567]

same lol

[@nnix]

Set the camera settings the same, compare RAWs. That is the only comparison that matters. This is nonsense.

[@TheSlantedLens]

We did compare RAW images and we did set the camera settings the same.

[@renestaempfli1071]

Compare this to capture one.

[@TheSlantedLens]

That would be another approach.

[@L.Lyubomirov]

You should compare each camera brand color science if only using the manufacture picture style,then there will be big difference.

[@TheSlantedLens]

We were wanting to show how they are all close enough these days that with a little editing it is hard to tell the difference.

[@L.Lyubomirov]

@@TheSlantedLens Yes this is true !But using the manufacture color profiles provide signature of the brand...Sony,Canon...Nikon,they all have they signature,color profiles are very important.

[@dennisvisualske]

@@TheSlantedLens but you matched them to nikon am dead

[@johnw.3636]

No Hasselblad or Fuji? 😉

[@TheSlantedLens]

Next time! Thanks for watching!

[@photo818]

Don’t recall if he mentioned that the monitor needs to be calibrated as well to get colors right

[@mikepenney5726]

irrelevant if all pictures are compared on same monitor... it's only import once you move the file to another device (internet, monitor, computer, printer).

[@ononearts]

Calibrating the monitor you grade on will ensure the highest degree of accuracy, and make sure that you aren’t grading incorrectly: not doing this will only make your errors compound on other screens, so YES: calibrate your monitor! It matters! It’s also very important if you wish to print your photos. The monitor calibration device and software are a very cheap investment towards reliably producing accurate colors in your work.

[@photo818]

@@ononeartsexactly and agree with you 100% I do printing and I do calibrate my monitor to get the best results

[@photo818]

@@mikepenney5726I do feel that if you’re using a color checker that the monitor needs to be calibrated regardless of how many cameras were used to test. Of course there will be different results if taken to other monitors in which was not the case in this video comparison

[@TheSlantedLens]

True, calibrating the monitor is the first step!

[@arjuntao]

I chose number 3. I bought my first good camera last year - it is made by the same brand! Divine confirmation I guess.

[@TheSlantedLens]

Glad you had that affirmation! Thanks for watching!

[@melissahall7009]

I have one of these, but I mostly shoot sunsets/seascapes and I’ve always been confused about this. Can you use this for scenes like sunsets?? How would I do that? 🤨 Is there a video about that specifically that anyone would recommend? I have a Canon & to me the color sucks 😩. When I apply any profile (landscape, color, standard etc) and none of those colors seem accurate to me.

[@TheSlantedLens]

You will want to use the grey scale side for your sunsets and seascapes and you should be able to adjust the color to your liking.

[@melissahall7009]

@@TheSlantedLens so just take a pic with the grey side in it then copy those settings to my other pics & adjust as needed? Thanks for the response

[@5675492]

I think that when you color correct/match etc prior to shooting you're not really using the manufacturers color science anymore and should not be surprised that the results are similar because you initially set them up to be similar .

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts and thanks for watching!

[@scotthullinger4684]

I think it depends on what your final use of the image is with regard to how good the color quality is. A picture might look great on a computer monitor, but it might look rather bad if you print the image at a quality lab as it is. SOME cameras do actually make very GREAT usable JPG quality right out of the camera. On the other hand . . . I believe most camera brands DO NOT - Moreover, if your camera has bad auto-white balance, then that's a bad beginning. But of course, if you're a studio photographer, then you'll have plenty of time to work out the particulars before the photo session begins, in order to ensure greater technical perfection.

[@honeybearfilms]

The thing I love is that you tested the camera colours in a dark environment with bad warm lighting like you'd see at a wedding recept... oh wait... you did it in perfect lighting didn't you? So there's no way to see how the colours actually change when the camera is challenged. Cool bro.

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thank you for this great idea for a test. Love to see you post that!

[@TBGTOMPHOTO]

I guessed correctly for the Canon at C, smiley face sticker for me. :D

[@TheSlantedLens]

Good eyes! Thanks for watching!

[@sungphoto]

I liked the 1st and 3rd ones the best. Skintone was the most pleasant and natural. You can spot that Sony mauve/purple a mile away

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thanks for sharing your preferences!

[@I0nut09]

I'm adding the damn canon preset, Nikon, etc. I needed some raw photos without any modification and that's it, without color checker and other tricks. I was interested in how the camera knows how to do WB without any tricks.

[@TheSlantedLens]

The easiest way it to put the Spyder Checkr in your first image and then when you are in camera raw click on the 18% gray square on the Spyder Checkr in the image and it will adjust your color.

[@Schroeder9999]

Barbie's really articulated. Complimented everything sentences you were saying with her expressions 😄

[@TheSlantedLens]

Yes, she did a great job and she was great to work with!

[@romelhyn]

why no fujifilm?

[@Jawad.1]

Please compare GFX 100 ii against Z9. Compare the image quality, 8K and 4K Video quality, ISO performance, Eye autofocus. Please...!!!

[@TheSlantedLens]

We will see what we can do. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@Jawad.1]

@@TheSlantedLens Thank you, Sir!

[@chennytango9298]

sorry can just cut down into 3 mins and show the color difference, not the in between how to fix or how to get the color.

[@arturaszaleskis8907]

Where is Fuji?

[@MYTHICALLY3D]

The ad nature of the Spyder whatever made it hard to watch 😂

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thanks for your feedback and thanks for watching!

[@canderson1955]

Fuji

[@TheSlantedLens]

Next time! Thanks for watching!

[@carldaniel3155]

Fuji colours are the best. Not tested here????!!!!

[@justpray365]

What’s a Fuji? 😂

[@Pikmeir]

@@justpray365It's a really tall mountain in Japan.

[@lewcehjitl3282]

Crop sensor 😂😂😂😂😂

[@memcrew1]

@@lewcehjitl3282GFX is not a crop sensor?

[@TheSlantedLens]

Fuji is another one with great color!

[@i18nGuy]

This raised more questions than answers. Ignoring that this seemed like more of an ad for the color checker than an honest attempt at camera comparison, it isnt clear that the preset is useful if the lighting changes. With different lighting on the subject would the same preset be accurate? It isnt clear that measuring on one image is sufficient. There was no discussion of how much the software was changing colors as more significant changes may be limited or more erroneous due to the softwre capabilities or if that software is more accurate for different colors, saturations or exposures and no comparison with other software that might give different results. Disappointing. It woulld have been more forthright to say here is how you can use the checker to make images from 2 cameras have similar color patterns. By the way in the end you still tweaked the colors subjectively by eye, so maybe the checker wasn't necessary at all.

[@mikepenney5726]

in my opinion he did not use the color checker properly as per the company's instructions... so this video is basically worthless...

[@TheSlantedLens]

Yes, if the lighting changes the colors would be different. The adjustments were very minimal in the end.

[@ArcanePath360]

So much wrong with this. For one thing, the Canon looked like it had a cheap USM lens on it. It didn't even have a pinch lens cap so looked old too. The lens choice affects the colour to a great degree, and you get richer colours and deeper blacks from L lenses which handle high contrast situations better. And I can prove the difference because I have both and when colour grading side by side the difference is night and day. The same camera, with the same settings would give a different white balance with different lenses. Also... "What did I like?" is only referring to a specific picture that you took. What if you shot a landscape or wildlife shot? It's so subjective you might as well make a video entitled "What is my favourite colour?"

[@mbismbismb]

despite him cheating ...i still think canon has better colours hahhaha

[@ArcanePath360]

@@mbismbismb Many people do. It's entirely subjective though, and I always think it's a moot point anyway when shooting RAW and you know how to adjust colours properly. Not only this, it changes from camera to camera within the brand itself, so it's a silly generalization to make.

[@Willymaze]

He has always been a Canon shooter, so no cheap lenses; the lenscap is from a EF lens but the matte plastic of the body says that is a RF lens.

[@ArcanePath360]

@@Willymaze Thanks. I guess he's one of those people who can't hang on to a lens cap for long, lol.

[@memcrew1]

Canon colors are not all that. Too much orange in the skin. I prefer Nikon colors.

[@ronyedin]

“bUT bUT buT cANoN hAs tHe bEsT cOloR sCiEnCe!”

[@TheSlantedLens]

That looks like it took some time to type that sentence!

[@kapilesh14]

If at all only Canon colours could technically be different as all other sensors are ultimately made by Sony. Even with all the customisation for individual brands, how different can you make it out to be.

[@TheSlantedLens]

And it is not too difficult to make them look the same.

[@dennisvisualske]

true

[@erbterb]

The illusive female communication might be hard for us gents to understand, but this hint was as loud as any. Put a ring on her finger! Regarding looking at the back of the camera, you do know it is the jpeg version which days nothing about the raw, only the internal filters, so why worry about that? Just as the histogram is not raw histo but jpeg histo, which is bad if you only shoot raw.

[@lewcehjitl3282]

Trying to sound wise 😂.

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thanks for sharing your thoughts!

[@mousepotatoc2566]

Canon looks the best for wedding photos, smooth and creamy. Sony is great for pixel peeping. Nikon has that red look, so popular back in the film days when people used Kodak film. Lumix has that similar look but brighter. Fuji color science was for nature, but their lenses are top notch. I'm playing around with in camera settings because I don't have time to edit every file on the computer. But I totally agree, the latest cameras from every brand is starting to look more similar than different.

[@TheSlantedLens]

Great perspective. Thank you for your insight!

[@dmgfilmproductionandphotog1567]

lol i thought #2 is sony. the lighting is perfect on the model. what a superb panasonic lumix!

[@TheSlantedLens]

It is a little tricky to tell the difference!

[@CoffeeEdgeMedia]

FUJI

[@ElementaryWatson-123]

Since I was a child I always wanted to marry Barbie 😊

[@TheSlantedLens]

It sounds to me like she is taken!

[@Bigcookfilms]

The Lumix S5 ii has the best colors because it's the camera that I use so it's the only colors that matter to me 😂😂😂 #Lumixgang

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thanks for sharing your preference!

[@momentofilms1503]

None compared to Blackmagic.

[@brandonklemets2958]

you wanna see an ursa look bad all you gotta do is search the vid vs the Z8

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thanks for watching and keep on clickin!

[@ellenlynn958]

I am the first one😊

[@justpray365]

I thought Adam was the first one. 😂😂

[@TheSlantedLens]

Thanks for jumping in and commenting!

[@ThomazMartinez]

Nikon has big problem, it cant hold highlights like other cameras do, hence as much as i like Nikon i will move to Canon or Sony

[@airjaff]

It's because Nikon shoots brighter than other cameras, have to stop it down like half a stop as compared to other cameras

[@AbhinavYadav-zm7ut]

It's your choice but it's a pretty weird reason to switch brands. Nikon is great with recovering shadows so like the other commentator said, you shoot half a stop down.

[@AbhinavYadav-zm7ut]

My wife has a Canon R10 (vs my Nikon z50) and in low light the R10's IQ is worse.

[@ThomazMartinez]

@@airjaff that is a problem, stoping down is anoying because you hardly can see anything in viewfinder but end of day still canon is easier to use and expose

[@amermeleitor]

You can expose to highlights, it's in the menu

[@thomasanderson5929]

Where is Olympus in this test?? Or even Fuji? LOL

[@TheSlantedLens]

Those would be some other great options!