Do you remember the Obama inauguration? Do you also recall the confusion? What was actually the color of this coat???
Color is something complex. In certain conditions, changes in the light source can cause a color shift, A pair of pants that looked brown in the shop can look green everywhere else. But that’s not the case here, in comparing photos. Differences in post-processing are probably not the cause either: in photojournalism speed is key, the photographers don’t ‘waste’ time on color correction. Ni, in this case, the color shift is caused by the cameras used…
We usually don’t think about it, but cameras aren’t 100% accurate at capturing colors. You may have noticed that different brands of cameras have different colors renderings. But this does not only differ between brands, even different models of the same brand can have a different color rendering.
How a camera records colors can be tested, Imatest is widely used for this purpose. And camera review sites use this software to test and compare cameras. One of them is Imaging Recourse. And these test results show what happened to Michele Obama’s coat in different presentations.
So again, do not always trust your eyes!
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