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.
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It’s like raw carrots vs. cooked carrots in a soup. Raw is the ingredient, it can become anything you want if you’re willing to put in some extra work. The soup is a finished product, it tastes better, but its fate is already sealed, it can no longer become anything you want. So a pro chef would prefer to start with raw ingredients and cook them himself to his liking, but someone with less skill or less time might prefer to just buy finished carrot soup.
Recording a raw image simply means that the camera doesn’t do any post processing on the image so that this can be done later on a computer with more control. A raw image is not meant to look realistic or better or anything. You can, however, make it look better later if you have the right skills and taste, but that’s up to you, not the camera.
>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.
RAW files are simply a data dump of everything a sensor captured. To view that data, you must use software that processes that file. The software is deciding how to process the data, and the default processing of one application will differ from another. It is fairly common for these applications to process raw files fairly neutral, with a very flat “curve”. Oftentimes you can change what settings are applied when the software renders an image. The result of all this is that, without tinkering with what settings gets applied, by default the file can look a bit blah until you manually process it to your tastes.
>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.
>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.
RAW files are simply a data dump of everything a sensor captured. To view that data, you must use software that processes that file. The software is deciding how to process the data, and the default processing of one application will differ from another. It is fairly common for these applications to process raw files fairly neutral, with a very flat “curve”. Oftentimes you can change what settings are applied when the software renders an image. The result of all this is that, without tinkering with what settings gets applied, by default the file can look a bit blah until you manually process it to your tastes.
RAW files are simply a data dump of everything a sensor captured. To view that data, you must use software that processes that file. The software is deciding how to process the data, and the default processing of one application will differ from another. It is fairly common for these applications to process raw files fairly neutral, with a very flat “curve”. Oftentimes you can change what settings are applied when the software renders an image. The result of all this is that, without tinkering with what settings gets applied, by default the file can look a bit blah until you manually process it to your tastes.
Your monitor/phone/whatever is not 100% color accurate nor is it likely you even have it tuned to be as accurate as it could be even if it was. Your eyes are also not the same as a camera, there is a large difference between how your eye and brain handle light and color and how a camera and a computer reproduce those things for you.
Your monitor/phone/whatever is not 100% color accurate nor is it likely you even have it tuned to be as accurate as it could be even if it was. Your eyes are also not the same as a camera, there is a large difference between how your eye and brain handle light and color and how a camera and a computer reproduce those things for you.
Your monitor/phone/whatever is not 100% color accurate nor is it likely you even have it tuned to be as accurate as it could be even if it was. Your eyes are also not the same as a camera, there is a large difference between how your eye and brain handle light and color and how a camera and a computer reproduce those things for you.
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