[AlbertP]

I've not yet had two Canon Pro digital cameras with color characteristics that were identical, or even close. And I'm talking about matching color even when custom white balanced under identical lighting situations. The pictures of a 1D I had way back when were plagued with a green cast, even when shooting raw and color balanced. I managed to dig up a custom color profile that was floating around the web to improve the situation somewhat, but there was always a color cast of some kind.

The cameras after the one 1D had better color, IMO, but color has always been different among the models. The only one I have never used firsthand is the 1DS Mark II, but from what I've seen on the Web, its color characteristics are different from those of its predecessor.

Does anyone agree? Essentially, this makes working with two bodies of different classes quite difficult from the postprocessing point of view. I've not found a satisfactory solution for obtaining photographs that are identical from one body to the next. This may not be such an issue for some types of photography, but for product photography, when color fidelity is of great importance, it can be.

The solution for me is to adopted different workflow for each camera, something that is inconvenient and annoying, but I put up with it. Does anyone experience something similar, and, if so, what you do about it. I see, by the way, the same problem with lower-end Canon cameras and Nikon cameras of different models. That is, the D60's color characteristics were and are very different from the 10D's, and that's different again from the 20D.

This has to stop. Someone should invite a Canon rep to this forum so that we can hear something definitive.