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That sounds like a deep comment but that's about it.

I'm sure photography has served many uses, and capturing the real world is certainly one of them.




It’s just as deep as the parent.

When have photos ever been about accuracy? When they were black and white? Or when Polaroid had problems with furniture and colored skin?


I think the parent's comment is insightful. Modern consumer cameras and monitors purposefully mess the color profile to have more saturated colors and better contrast than what you see with the naked eye. Not due to a technical limitation but because it makes the image more pleasing to the eyes.

I don't take a lot of photographs so I don't care too much about cameras but not being able to display a decent image on a modern TV without having it mess it up on purpose is really annoying me. Even disabling all the post processing doesn't really work anymore. It's like those CD masters with all the sound pushed near saturation to make it sound louder, it's a cheap marketing gimmick.




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