Elusivesouls wrote in post #19257413
I agree. I love Nikon but once I started comparing files between the D850 and the R5, it was hard to ignore the green cast on the Nikon files. Easy fix, but still...to my eyes, the Canon files don't require much if anything at all if you wanted to just use them straight out of camera. Obviously that's personal preference, but just my experience. Fuji is another one that has excellent SOOC files, but when I was in the Fuji ecosystem, it was annoying having to deal with the wax skin effect that would occur when raising the ISO.
Found with Fuji that you have to turn down the Sharpness of the files (I use -2), and that gets rid of the plasticky look you're seeing. Tradeoff is you have to add a little sharpening back in post if you want the best results. I only shoot jpg out of my Fujis, more often than not I transfer files to my iPhone for sharing, edit them using the iPhone, and I add exactly +14 sharpness... 15 is too much, 14 is perfect 
Definitely see the green cast in my Nikon files (D500, Z9), especially since I use them to shoot birds in foliage. Easy fix in post w/ the tint slider.
Canon, on the other hand, has always had a red/magenta tint tendency. It used to be really bad back in the 5D2/3 days, where the camera would blow out the red channel if you weren't careful. With the R5, I don't see that as much, and the files are so awesome to work with.
Nowadays, the gap b/w Canon and Nikon is about zero, you can get amazing files out of both systems. All of the DR and AF advantages that Sony and Nikon had have been pretty much erased with the RF mount. More important things to base a system choice on now.
aladyforty wrote in post #19482792Twenty years ago when Canon released the new prosumer 300D camera I finally put the film camera (an old Zenit brick) away. Of course over the years I acquired some good lenses and when Canon gave us the 5D full frame I stayed with them. what would be the point of changing brand when you have a bunch of lenses? 2011 I purchased a Fuji X100 and I was sold on their colours and just the whole experience of shooting Fuji. It was not until the XT3 came out that I seriously thought of going further with Fuji. I now have an XT3 and 6 lenses, 4 are their high end ones. It was way cheaper to go Fuji mirrorless and to change over to the R series. I have kept my 5D3 and 4 lenses but I'm close selling it all to further my Fuji collection. The price, weight, built in image stabilisation on newer models and the fact that the XT3 beats the 5D3 in dynamic range has me thinking that I don't need full frame anymore. Loved my canons over the years but no intention of buying another no matter how good they get
Of the three brands I shoot, Fuji is easily the most fun. The look you can achieve with it is sublimely beautiful (especially w/ the Fuji 35 f/1.4). At the same time though, having shot countless times alongside my wife's R5 + 24-70 f/2.8, the Canon files are a good notch better, they're so clear and lush; the Canon is ultimately the camera we choose if we're shooting for serious.
The thing is though... Canon used to have such an awesome lineup of lenses that possessed a more characterful, old school feel: the EF 50 f/1.2L, 135L, 35 f/1.4L, 85 f/1.2L II... they've completely abandoned any sense of character, instead choosing to compete w/ robot Sony in the pursuit of clinical perfection and winning test chart shooting awards (same with Nikon, they too have some legendary glass). That's why I devote my casual shooting to Fuji anymore, I am more than willing to give up boring clinical perfection, for more character and feel being imparted on my photos. Yeah, yeah, we can always adapt the classic glass, but it'd be nice to see them embrace some artful side of design in future product releases.
