Colors from RAW images look different than “raw” colors in real life and somehow… “ugly”. Of course these files needs post-processing so the colors of those will be better and life-like, but I think there is something about the camera, the sensor… so that RAW files look like that.
I’m looking forward to reading interesting explanations from you guys!
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>look different than “raw” colors in real life
What raw colors? You mean what your eyes see? That is not raw in any sense. The optical nerves in your retina starts processing the incoming light before the signals ever reach your brain and your optical cortex does even more processing. You (and all humans) have never seen “raw colors”.
Our eyes are more like modern smartphone cameras that do a ton of AI assisted corrections and edits to the image, even to the point of altering what we see. That’s why all these optical illusions work and why we see shapes in the dark that are not really there.
If you were to attach electrical sensors to each cone cell in your retina and then put those sensor readings in a 2d array (like a bitmap image) it would look similar to a RAW imagefile but with a different color space.
Comparing your vision to a RAW image is comparing a heavily processed and interpreted image to direct sensor readings. So of course one of them will look more… unprocessed.
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