Steve Fishwick wrote: I made the mistake that I hope I'm not doing here of innocently responding to someone on FB who claimed that women made better colourist's than men, since some science suggested they are more sensitive to colour. I honestly have no idea if this is true but I gently suggested that human beings, as a whole, have rather poor colour vision, compared to many other animals and even someone with less than stellar sensitivity can be trained to do a good job, since it the practice of training to recognise colour differences and use the much more sensitive calibrated tools at our disposal that lie less, both of which are open to anyone who chooses that path.
Men generally have worse colour discernment and perception than women.
The key phrase is "generally" because there's always outliers.
1 in 12 men have a color vision deficiency compared to 1 in 200 women. But that doesn't mean that men are worse, just that there's fewer of them
Though there are also some woman that appear to have an EXTRA colour receptor too
https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists ... r-receptorand
https://www.discovermagazine.com/mind/t ... man-vision"An unknown number of women may perceive
millions of colors invisible to the rest of us. One British scientist is trying to track them down and understand their extraordinary power of sight"
I'm pretty sure I had a female director that had this gene ! She was so specific about colour in the grade with myself and a very experienced male colourist weren't really seeing.
I've always been wary about the use of the phrase "can the audience notice" because...
It's not as simple as that. We human have pretty poor visual perception in some ways, and a lot of stuff get's past us. Has anyone notices that film is actually 24 individual frames in a secon d and isn't continuous !?
Anyway, the point is, sure we can't SEE a difference but as soon as you put those images through pipeline of grading, vfx, delivery into the big bad world, the higher the resolution, the better the bit depth, the less compressed, the better those shots SURVIVE that process. Sure you can't see individually the difference between 422 and 444 but you sure can if you're trying to pull a key from it....
JB