A question to help me understand ...
(...) Shooting .jpg the colour balance setting of the camera can be adjusted as desired.
So why care?
:lecture:
because my wife cares .-)
Back in 2003 I gave my wife a 4 Mp tiny sensor Hewlett-Packard hp850 (jpeg only) compact camera, and she simply loved the jpeg color output.
Later on, in 2009, I thought she should have something better and I gave her a 12 Mp µ4/3 Panasonic G1.
From day one she hated the jpeg color output from the G1, and I couldn't persuade her to deal with post processing in RAW converters.
Then I promised her to do all the RAW conversion work for her.
I tried the bundled Silkypix RAW converter, as well as Adobe Lightroom and Capture One Pro, but I never seemed to be able to get the colors right, or even just pleasing.
My wife still hated the color results, despite whatever color corrected or uncorrected screens used for viewing the results, and I need to admit that I actually had to agree with her.
I fumbled endlessly with the in-camera color adjustments, but with no real success, and finally I gave up.
Since then the G1 has spent its life in a drawer, where it still resides.
In 2013 the old hp850 finally died and then I gave my wife a 10 Mp 1" sensor Nikon V1.
Luckily she is much more happy with the V1 than she was with the G1, though now and then she is still mumbling a bit about missing the old Hewlett-Packard compact camera with its pleasing jpeg output straight out of the box.
Apparently the hp850 was a rare jewel.
(Thank you, Vivek, for your great help with getting the Nikon V1 at a very attractive price :thumbup
But even though I always shoot RAW, I myself also need a good starting point in order to get a color rendering I find satisfying.
Maybe it is just me being a jerk with post processing, but with regards to colors a good starting point is really important to me, otherwise I am sometimes in deep troubles.
I am of course also aware that we as human beings do not all of us perceive colors in the same way.
P.S. By the way, both my wife and I can easily pass the below color blindness test, so color blindness is not the cause to our sensitive preferences with colors and our troubles with some cameras more than with other cameras.
http://www.colour-blindness.com/colour-blindness-tests/ishihara-colour-test-plates/
P.P.S. And while we are at it The Camera Store has made this interesting little shootout on jpeg output from different cameras, a nice little harmless introduction to an interesting subject.
Fortunately it is a free world, and we can just choose in accordance with our own personal preferences.
http://www.thecamerastore.com/blog/...ny-fuji-iphone-pentax-olympus-panasonic-.aspx
©lick for actual pixels
© • Captured with Nikon D300 • AF-S Nikkor 1.4/85mm G • 1/50 sec. at f/2.8 ISO 200 • Capture NX
© • Captured with Nikon D500 • AF-S Nikkor 1.8/28mm G • 1/2 sec. at f/8 ISO 100 • Capture NX-D
© • Captured with Nikon D500 • AF-S Nikkor 1.8/28mm G • 0.77 sec. at f/8 ISO 100 • Capture NX-D