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I'm a D750 shooter at the moment. I have developed a hate for the colours in-doors compared to Canon 5D3/4. Especially tungsten and flourescent which some lovely venues have. I have tried to use the built in colour options but these are naff in quick changing situations and especially bad in mixed lighting conditions.
The reason I am bringing the above into this discussion is that EVF 'wysiwyg' is supposed to mean that I could potentially shoot and require minimal processing (one of the advantages of mirrorless right?) but the colours are so awful it takes ages to get them close to the Canon's - especially skin-tones. This is the reason why most of my friends have avoided Sony and now the new Nikon and instead gone with the Canon R.
I can't speak for Canon as I have never really liked Canon and have only ever used a 6d for a short time but the colour science thing is all a load of nonsense in my experience. I shot Nikon for around 15 years or so and switched over to Sony a few months ago. With older Sony bodies colours did seem to have a yellow tinge but that isn't the case with the third gen bodies and the A9.
My missus still shoots Nikon sometimes and as I do most of the editing I am often editing sets of images from both Nikon and Sony bodies. I personally prefer the straight out of camera colours from the Nikon in good light, but in crap or mixed light the Sony has much more accurate colours. It takes less than a second to make the Sony look the same in good light as the Nikon in post there isn't that big of a difference.
The Northrups recently did a video on colour science and did a blind test. Most people preferred Sony colours compared to Nikon, Canon & Fuji.
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