>>4300136You can view this comparison of the pass-through demosaic with non-WB'd B&W, an AMaZE demosaic with white balancing, and a default camera JPEG.
The default JPEG might catch your eye but it's not a contrasty scene, so the flat appearance is expected. The actual color of the candies and everything in real life is nowhere near as saturated as the camera JPEG on the right but that is what people (and normal presets) are used to.
If you photograph something and print it out it should at least resemble what the thing looks like viewed side-by-side in real life to some degree. Most photographers have strayed from that concept, but that's why they keep coining new BS terms like "crunch" or "smeary" or "over sharpened" every few years as trendy post-processing meta change.
If they stopped fucking around and baking their files, they'd stop thinking digital is "too sharp" or that it somehow "emphasises pores" or something, it doesn't, that's literally all the result of highpass filters and unsharp masking highlighting such things, not anything related to the equipment or even photography. Just editing.
