Xuereb
Veteran
- Location
- W. Australia
A final reflection on 5N colour. I photograph landscape and green rendition is important. The yellow cast takes hours (I exaggerate a bit) to adjust in LR. Perhaps it is the summer light in Australia. Manipulation is a fine balancing act of using the camera calibration yellow/green slider and then going to the yellow colour to reduce this. Each picture requires a different amount of reduction. Sometimes white balance has to be shifted as well. At that point I get something like a neutral picture to then start playing with. I improve it as much as I can but the olive greens and khaki colours are still 'off', reminiscent of old Canon jpgs with a sickly pallor . I take about 8-10 times longer processing Nex 5N images compared to the GF1. I can't go on. It has driven me nuts. It is a pity because with monastic discipline I learnt the Nex menu system and settings until they became instinctive.
To resolve the annoyance, I began to take a series of scenes with this camera and the GF1. The latter has natural balanced colour. The Nex remains jaundiced does queer things to particular colours: yellow (too much everywhere), green (at once, depending on the shade, faded or too rich) and brown (too much), autumn leaves are too orange. Comparisons of identical scenes in identical light favour the GF1, and won't permit me to continue with the Nex. Colour and tone matter more to me than the reduction in shadow noise and dynamic range.
Unless someone tells me that there is some pixie dust for this malady, my Nex 5N will soon be at the knacker's yard or the Bay of Ease. The proceeds will get me a m4/3 lens, possibly the Leica 25.
To resolve the annoyance, I began to take a series of scenes with this camera and the GF1. The latter has natural balanced colour. The Nex remains jaundiced does queer things to particular colours: yellow (too much everywhere), green (at once, depending on the shade, faded or too rich) and brown (too much), autumn leaves are too orange. Comparisons of identical scenes in identical light favour the GF1, and won't permit me to continue with the Nex. Colour and tone matter more to me than the reduction in shadow noise and dynamic range.
Unless someone tells me that there is some pixie dust for this malady, my Nex 5N will soon be at the knacker's yard or the Bay of Ease. The proceeds will get me a m4/3 lens, possibly the Leica 25.