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Fujifilm GFX100/GFX100S/100 II: Camera Profiles Renditions
Over the years, I keep getting comments along the lines of “the color of Camera X is Better than Camera Y”.
Since most of today’s cameras use nearly identical sensor technology, that makes little sense: even camera electronics are not altering color (for RAW) but just translating analog signals into digital bits, doing it a little clear/better or not. All (or nearly all) of the look-and-feel happens during raw conversion.
There are two key factors involved in how an image looks: (1) the RAW converter, and (2) the Profile applied to the raw image in that raw converter. These two cannot be separated; changing the raw converter also changes the available Profiles. Any evaluation needs to pick a raw converter and go from there, with no possible equivalence eg "Standard" in one is not the same as "Standard" in another; they are completely different takes.
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