Color science is the latest term to hit the internet and thrown around by anyone who has an opinion on cameras. These days, you can’t go through any camera review, whether of an actual camera or of a smartphone, without someone mentioning how good or bad the color science is.
So what exactly is the color science of a camera and is it really as important as thecoolcameraguy69 says it is in some YouTube comment you saw online? Let’s find out.
What is color?
Before we find out what color science is, we must learn what color is and how it comes about in a digital image. Color (or chroma…