I had several fujifilm cameras because of the Classic Chrome. I came over a recepie on how to achive that CC on sony A7 cameras. And i gave it a try, and I was absolutely amazed! I now shoot the old A7 as often i can. This is how i did it: Creative Styles and chose Neutral and crank UP Contrast +2 Saturation -2 Sharpness +1 Custom WB 5600 kelvin and hit B1 and then youre set. And thank you for amazing videos. Very apriciated!

Thank you for this lesson. Sony’s colour are driving me crazy they look so off. I’m coming from Canon and I’ve shot with my Sony for a year. I will try some of your suggestions. Yes, the skin tones is what I’m attempting to be accurate and natural.

Auto white balance white is probably the best bet, because how a camera distinguishes white balance is by looking at the RGB values and determining which pixels are closest to equal RGB values, which is what would generally help determine white balance for a scene. The only place where this can mess up is if there is nothing white in a scene and it latches onto some other bright color that is the closest to white but isn't actually white, but even then, auto white balance can generally take that into account too. So it might see the closest colors to white is something that has RGB values of 230, 225, 202.....then takes those discrepancies and tries to balance them.

Can't beat Canon color grades. I'm shopping for my first mirrorless camera and deciding between Canon M50 Mark II and the Sony ZV-E10. Comparing an outdoor picture, the Canon picture is real-to-life colors and the Sony pictures has the "blue" sky in a purple-ish hue and skin tones very magenta. Sony ZV-E10 has better features compared to the Canon M50 but man, the colors on the Canon are amazing!

"Let`s go back to the photographer" , Omar, you`re the man, girl. Gotta love the honest humor!

I’m NOT SAYING my Sony cameras have weird colors… but I’m here for a reason. Thanks Omar!

I work with food photography, so accurate colors are VITAL, you don't know just how quickly food can turn from yummy to yucky just because of the color. I used to use Canon and SOME colors would have a yellowish shift (I guess that's good for people colors). That colorcheckr passport was a real lifesaver. Now I'm a Fuji shooter and I'm often tempted to use jpegs only ngl. Still I want accuracy so I use the grey card every time. For everything else I just use the Fuji film simulations + recipes. It's very good fun and gives me beautiful almost-ready results.

I've only shot with a Sony, so I didn't notice how much I had to work to get the colors how I liked them until I shot with a Fuji.

great video. thank you ! Can you show us how you use a colour picker in different settings such as events with flash or even in a nature setting?

man you have a calming voice, it always makes me relax. you are the best.

white balance daylight, day white works for me, thanks alot

I fixed my Sony colors with one simple step... I switched to Fuji. 🤣 in all seriousness though great video and I wish I knew this back when I still had my Sony gear.

Selecting any DRO will decrease the image quality, especially when you shoot in low light. I keep it OFF most of the time.

I am red/green colour blind. Not enough to not see any red or green, but enough to know I am only seeing a fraction of colour nuance that people with ‘normal’ colour vision can see. These kinds of videos make me realise what I am missing and why I shouldn’t trust myself to judge skin tones... 😬

been waitttinnnggg for this lol. (you mentioned it once and I've been looking for this video) You are awesome.

I never use JPG. Shooting in raw with a custom camera profile is the way I do it. The same is true for printers. Once calibrated, there is no difference between different brands. I have made comparison tests with A7R4 and R5. The prints on my Canon Pro1000 just look the same. Of course this comes with additional work. Sometimes the difference is marginal and not worth the effort. There is a noticeable difference of JPG output between the different brands and is in most cases subjective.

If you want good Sony colours Use Capture One instead of Lightroom and turn DRO off.

I fixed my Sony colours by moving to Fujifilm. It appears from comments I am not alone!

Great video Omar! Love your tutorial videos. I'm not seeing much from you these days it seems. Hope life is treating you well!

1. Nikon/Canon 2. Fuji 3. ... 4. ... 5. Sony 6. ... ....

I know this is old but it is the best thing I’ve ever seen. I feel like I’m losing my mind with skin tones!! I was about to rent a different camera to see if it was the camera 🤣

There is nothing like “fixing the colors once and for all.” Film and video are emulation of real world, which means it shouldn’t be exactly the same as real life. Your necessities change all the time for different projects therefore there is nothing as the best colors for all. Also, for cameras with not so good color science you can tweak the colors however you want but even with a lut like the Emotive Color Arri lut, you still won’t get the same thing. That’s the fact at least for now.

Just a few observations. The worst color problems from Sony in my estimation are skin tones and green grass and trees. Perhaps because brain has very good memory how healthy tones should look like. The abstract colors, like street, architecture, etc. are fine because a normal person doesn't really have a good reference point to begin with. I don't feel the newer Sony cameras produce better colors by default. In my experience Sony A7Rii was the best and then the problems got worse, the third generation generally reduced saturation and colors look bland and diluted with white and require significant boost, and I think the worst colors right now are from A7Riv with something really ugly in the skin tones. X-rite generated color profiles sometimes look good sometimes bad, no consistency. I created many of them from different light sources, and still it doesn't solve the Sony color problem. They also seem to really screw out of gamut colors. The other observation, I also have Nikon Z5 camera and I almost never have to do anything to colors other than vibrance and saturation. I'm using Lightroom. So I think I will just sell my Sony and stay with Nikon until Sony solves this problem.

Fuji colors are really good straight out of camera

Love the "Who cares how your kids looks like" Brilliant !

Thanks for the education! Can you do a color checker workflow tutorial? That would be valuable :)

Why is everybody ignoring the significance of the light source? For me, ambient light pictures became real with a reflected flash or Rotolight. It might be that you are actually missing a wavelength and you try to fix the problem with a preset.

Omar, to add to your informative video, I would create a profile for each camera/lens combo. Some lenses have different color cast, and I name my x-rite profile files with the body, lens, date and session name. Yes, I get many profiles and I save them in the same archive folder of the session. Thanks for another great video 🙏

Ohh, just updated some settings! Thanks! Can't wait to give it a shot.

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I fixed my colours by selling all my Sony and buying a Fuji xt4 and canon r5.

Can you create a tutorial on the colour passport checker and how you would go about adjusting settings based off of it? Thanks!

Sony is slow with WBalancing. Setting to fixed scene (sunny) can help. XRITE color pass is a must have for non electronically coupled lenses (vintage, manual focus). If lenses lack electronic coupling, the colors can be very bad and off. In the worst of the cases I take a cellphone image of a scene to take it home and compare this with my shots. Lastly, color judgement varies by time of the day very dramatically. I usually check colors at daytime and at nighttime twice.

the best video for sony colors I´ve watched so far. got you an abo ;-)

Nice tips! I've switched from Fuji to Sony and IMHO biggest problems with Sony colors are Auto White Balance (for jpegs) and horrendous Lightroom profiles (for raws). These are my best solutions so far Jpeg - Standard and Vivid profiles are pretty accurate, with Standard being pretty close to Colorchecker calibrated profile (same as Fuji Provia), as long as white balance is correct. AWB with Priority White and M1 offset (on magenta-green scale) looks ok 80-90% of the time, but often I need to result predefined presets (like daylight) or setting a Kelvin value. Fuji was much better there since auto white balance was more reliable. Raw - using Capture One or Lightroom with Color Checker Dual Illuminant profile. Capture one does great job with Sony colors, especially with ProStandard profile, but custom made dual illuminant profile is even better. Either of these methods gives me great results, superior to the results I used to get with Fuji. But in the end, Sony is definitely still not a best choice for Jpeg-only shooters,even with all those tweaks applied.

There are accurate colors, there are pleasing colors and there are the colors of the sony a 7 II, which i'm so glad i left behind me...

THANK YOU so much for the tips on the WB and Standard settings for the Sonys...AMAZING tip!!

I've shoot with canon for years, the color changes with each lens. more reddish and greenish tone. I've tried EOS R, it has most beautiful colors SOOC for my taste. I've tried Sony A9, it has the most details, so sharp but the colors not exactly my taste. I've also tried Fuji GFX50R, no complaints. I've tried Lumix S1, nothing special but the focusing system is poor for that price Lastly Leica M10&Q, its normal.

Some great advice. I'm puzzeld as how Sony can provide such bad color management in their cameras. It's not the hardware, but the algorithm. For Sony every image needs to be manually color-corrected. As others state, it's always off, but it's much more of a problem when taking photos of scenes where the brain knows how they should look. I'm having issue with to much of a magenta cast in any image. I think that is the source of the green/yellow problems. Once I reduce the magenta (in combination with the correct WB to avoid greeen/yellow stains, which is a real manual chore as its slightly different for each image) the colors ín the images of an A7M4 are good.

Big score, Omar, I can relate with everything you bring up: Coming from Leica and Canon to Sony , I soon realised I was a spoiled kid. I hated A7M2 colors, then improved with A7M3. By side by side comparisons with A6400 however I found that the A7M3 display gets the colors totally wrong, every jpg turned out better on the iPad or print than they appeared on the display. BTW Canon lenses (I kept using some of them by help of a sigma mc-11 adapter) gave a much warmer tone and almost perfect skin tone! But then, like you, I discovered XT-20, coupled with XF16/1.4, 35/1.4 and 52/1.2, chose Film Simulation pro negative std, and ever since colors is no longer an issue for me! And yes, to achieve that to some extent on Sony, lower the contrast and raise the shadows, tone down the saturation a bit ( but that does not work too well for nature .

I liked this video, very useful. Waiting for more videos like, Sony and Fujifilm, how to set, how to shoot, to the point with samples. Thank you

Camera settings check thee super. Thank you!

Wow, this was really helpful. Thanks. I also like photos to be as real-life as possible with the colors matching life.

I wish I had a colour and gamma accurate LCD/EVF, because nothing else I have is colour calibrated, so idk if I'm nailing the vibrance or just shooting skittles at this point. Sometimes I use adobe RBG with Velvia just to be sure, but my gooey Costco prints have come out fine so far. I'm deliberating getting a Canon for video. I love the tones and colours, the usability, the AF, the size, the slide in ND EF adapter, but everyone has scared me into thinking they have the dynamic range of a crosswalk.

On my A6000 in jpeg I get natural looking skin tones, as long as my light is set up well and I can get a good focus its great

A wonderful video but also an expensive solution wrt the colour checkers. BTW I've reduced my KZfaq photography consumption because gear review videos are boring and lately, toxic. Your channel is a wonderful, warm space where your knowledge, experience and humour keep me coming back btw. I was kinda mean to you about the Jim Carrey mannerisms a long time ago and I apologise for that. I hope you know that you now have a 100% convert. :}

I get tired of people saying Sony has bad colors. I get amazing colors out of my a7Riv and a7Siii

. That’s why I have a Olympus, Panasonic, Nikon and a Fujifilm Camera, I don’t adjust the colours. That’s just me, nice to compare, it keeps me interested. Thanks for the Video. Stay Safe.

Very nice job

After seeing what Astia does to skin tones it is difficult to look at anything else.

Hi Omar, i have a sony a7lll and a dji mini4. i like the drone colours and i want set up the a7lll to much the colour when i am editing both images together can you help me ? plese!!!!!

lol "video-ographer" sound so funny. I've never heard anyone say "photo-ographer"

Wow, this helped me a bunch. Thank you so much.

thank you, very useful tips and indeed I shot fuji jpeg to document my life and sony to document nature and when it comes colours especially in the evening golden hour it is challenging to get skin colours right. Thank you again for some setting tips

With my A7RIV I just go off the histogram use manual settings. How I want the shadows and colours to look is done from RAW in capture one.

Just use Capture One. It handles Sony colors a lot better than Adobe, no more weird skin tones

Sony a900 colora are one of the best

Wonderful input. Thanks a million from an amateur photographer!

Absolutely brilliant, Omar!

I used to shoot Sony but left because I spent so much time trying to get the colors right. But the good thing is It made me better understand what I needed to do. Still for some unknown reason to me I kinda like my black and whites more. Go figure.

Cheers so much 😊 This is so helpful ❤

Thanks very much...a bucket of great info

Cameraville has done a series of videos in the past on image quality that includes color across Sony, Nikon, Canon and Pentax. There is a substantial difference. Using the same lens, and on one video - the same sensor across Sony, Nikon and Pentax. Sony can fix their problem if they so desire - but apparently they don't desire.... Sure you can "fix" the colors in post processing - but, the question is why do you have to go through the process? PS - YT doesn't let me link to the various videos...

Great video Omar. DRO messes the raw file in a way as well. I kept wondering why my raw photos were so much darker then what was in camera. I Turned that off and now they look the same. Also , I decided to switch to capture one ( from Lightroom) and the starting point for raw files is so much better (even skin tones). I’m finding that there is way less work to get a pleasing result when editing.

I see those klipsch rb's in the background. This is a great video man! Thinking of getting into photography soon. Definitely will be back here

Hey Omar! Nice content as always. Keep up the great work!!!

So. This whole conversation about colours started with the rise of Sony cameras. When I was buying my first dslr (this may sound old but I am not THAT old) people weren’t really talking much about Canon vs Nikon colour - well it was implied that Canon is better for people and Nikon for landscape photos but that was it. I think the issue with Sony is that these are excellent cameras when it comes to value and what you get - people simply want to love them. Everything looks nice on paper when you read through specs. And then you see your photos. Not impressed. By the way, this is coming from a person who bought into Sony but kept Canon and likes to torture himself sometimes comparing photos from both systems. We can talk about screen calibration and different profiles, different software or newer Sony cameras vs old Sony cameras but the truth is Sony Alpha cameras colour science simply sucks and is not the most accurate in the industry (as some like to say) but the worst. Which is sad as they know how to create good colour science (Venice anyone?). As this whole colour issue is causing a lot of headache I would advise anyone interested this: buy the camera that gives you the colour you like. If it is Sony - fine. Every system will have a certain compromise. In my opinion for Canon it is overheating in video, bad codecs in video and the price (over the top for what you get and what actually is usable in real life), for Nikon - lack of fully developed mirrorless lens system plus autofocus issues, for Fuji - Xtrans (yup) and for Sony it’s their colour science. Some people like to say that Sony doesn’t necessarily have problems with colours but with tonality (e.g. harsh light roll off on the skin or in the clouds). If you follow Sony firmware updates they actually try to address this issue. Nevertheless, it’s nowhere near perfect. The very fact that so many people are trying to fix colour from their Sony proves that there is something wrong/off whit the colour science implemented. Reading through many forums and KZfaq comment section where Sony colour is the topic, I can tell that there are a lot of Sony apologists out there. Most people who treat camera brands like religion and deny any issues with their system are either limited and didn’t use anything else that’s on the market so can’t really compare or are armchair photographers.

That's a nice video, Omar. After shooting 2 years with my a73 I got fed up and I sold it. First, I was intending to upgrade to an a7r4 but the colours on Sony have always bothered me. I came from a Canon t3i before the a73 and I use to prefer the t3i with a cheap 18-55 standard lens over the Sony a73 with a 24-70 2.8gm. One thing that you mentioned that's true is the Sony sharpness. But the colours..omg...horrible. You've shone a light here for all the Sony users and honestly made me think about the a7r4 again. I bought a Canon m6 mk2 and I'm waiting for the lens to arrive so I can start testing it but I hadn't the courage to sell my Sony stuff (besides the camera that has gone) yet. Well, after all this useless explanation, how do you use your colour checker in events that have a lot of lights interfering in the flash? Do you have a video talking about using the color checker? Thanks for all your videos, you have always made me buy a fuji but I wanna go over 30 megapixels cause I like to recompose the images on Lightroom. Cheers mate

If you do a custom white balance and use the native raw converter you will get correct colors. It is easy to match color from any system using the same raw developer. When blind tests are done Sony usually come out 1 or 2 and they are closest to actual colors. Your advice is mostly inaccurate and this is why people don't understand the issue

Or you can use the camera mount cover , which is a free 50 grey card!!!!

Great video. Now show us how to make a color profiles.

That’s a really helpful video, Omar! Can you tell me whether the Creative Style on Sony (A7R3) can make a difference with these settings? Standard, Vivid or Neutral…

Thank you Omer for such a great informative video. I was a Nikon user (D750 n Z6) and moved to Sony for better AF system. Colours are my pain point with Sony ( A7III n now A7R IV). I try your tips. I am also planning to move back to Nikon or Canon maybe. I mostly shot Jpeg according to my work needs. Please suggest me which system would be better in this scenario Nikon or Canon, my top needs are SOOC and AF. I mostly shot indoors weddings, kinds and corporate shots.

This was so helpful as a new Sony shooter. I'm definitely getting the Xrite. The other solutions seem too hit and miss. That final closing comment 😆 Follow-up question: Are Xrite and Calibrite the same product?

so helpful, thank u so much!!

According to Tony Northrup's famous study, the majority of us are secret Sony color lovers.

Great vid. Thanks.

Thank you for this video Omar. Bought two zeiss lenses lately(FE 35mmf2.8 SonnarZA + 135mmf2.8 Batis FE). Actually, i do not know what is going on with these zeiss lenses, but color rendition changed to superb on my a7rii raw.

Ok. So I was planning to switch from my X-E3 to the A7C just because I like that new FE 24-70 Mii for its size and constant f2.8. I then came across this video while researching how to change color profiles in a Sony. And then... "For my Fuji i just use JPEGs.". I hate you. 🤣

You so funny..! Oh...and helpful too w that color wizardry stuff.

I shoot RAW so I just preset fix in LR. I see no reason to shoot in jpeg especially since you can convert to jpeg if you want it.

Can I have your Lightroom Profile for the Sony A7III? The one you calibrated the color with

Looking at that jpeg color standard comparison in the beginning got me wondering... Could it be that Sony tried to do something similar to SLOG, muting the colors so you can change them to your liking in post without losing details or introducing artifacts? No Idea if this theory makes any sense...

Just use a Grey card & use capture one. This will have do until I can upgrade my A6400 to a R6. 💪🏽

I use a Sony A7RIII for real estate interiors and landscapes. I have recently noticed a change in the images I can't relate to any changes I've made on the camera. When shooting 5 image brackets at F13 or any stop the camera just rips off the bracket faster than ever before, images are darker than usual now, the viewfinder goes darker when facing bright windows, and increases in image noise on dark surfaces. I have no idea what I did to make this happen. Help me please! Thanks, Mike

I absolutely hate the skin tones on my sony a7iii it's my fist camera and all I've shot with. But when I see a canon images it's more what I' like. All my sony images are magenta and I haven't figured it out. How so I make a Sony Camera Profile? Is that the answer?

I only shoot Raw in both Sony and Fuji. I still find fuji lacking in jpeg. Again, that is how I see it. It is easier to get what I want in Lightroom or Capture 1 on both systems.

Sony user here for many years and I hate that the LCD always shows my images way more blown out than they actually are. But I always shoot raw also. Just hate when I show someone the back of the screen I have to say it will look different than what they are seeing..

Is the newer mirrorless of sony camera doesn't have this issue. I hate sony for this for a long time

I don't like any of the colors, what do I do?

Yep, learned something today... 🤔👍

Do you prefer the AWB ambience/white setting?

Great and informative video! Greetings from Germany!

Such great scripting. Yes, once I calibrated monitor... omg, it was like night and day. I can't recommended that enough. It like a huge confidence boost when you tweak a color and know it will look good on everything, phones, TVs, tablets, etc. For video, I get better results and easier grading with a static white balance. You're absolutely right about how auto white balance works. The Sony cameras are great for run and gun with auto WB on but color grading is so much more difficult. 5000-5700 Kelvin is a good level, but I suggest to use a gray card or a color checker of you got one. Gray cards are under $10.

Hey work in capture one with raw there you can set Color’s like you won’t canon,Nikon, Olympus..,,

What do you prefer Canon color or Fujifilm color (just realized video is about Sony Color) but would love to have your perspective.

Omar, this is a very helpful video. I have been shooting in RAW with my Sony A6300 but have recently used RAW + jpeg in order to get images in jpeg for quick transfer and sharing. I tried to change my AWB to white but that does not appear to be an option. Instead when I select AWB and try to change it I get a color grid with A-B and X-Y axis. If I have them at 0-0 is that the same as white? Thanks.

Good guide mate, Sony should really reassess their colour science, it's a shame they can't nail skin colours in camera - everything can be post processed to damnation..

I currently have an a6400 & im planning to go Fuji while using my Sony for video as I’ve fallen into the same issue with photo edits being a headache with it (I do a lot of live steaming as well). Would you suggest I get the new Fuji xs10 or the x100v? I’m hearing the x simplifies the photo taking process a bit & seems to be more enjoyable. The xs reminds me quite a bit of my a6400.

Great video Omar! One question though, how do you use a color checker during candid shots that don't have strobes involved. An x-rite is on my short list of things to buy and I probably need to just experiment with it but how well does it work in constantly changing natural light situations?