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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Sensors try to do two things:
1) Give you a very plain and basic image, so that you can have more freedom when editing it
2) Try to capture more information about light (ie. dynamic range, the difference between the brightest spot and the darkest spot in the image), in order to do this they use various schemes (it’s basically all maths), which result in a flatter image with muted colors, but with a lot on information in it that you can later take advantage of in editing softwares.
And of course it has to do with the quality of the sensor too.
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