Originally Posted by JJJPhoto
Nothing unusual about that. A couple of years ago when I was shooting with Nikon and Fuji cameras I made a rule about assistants needing to use either Nikon or Fuji cameras for the EXACT same reason.
It wasn't so much that the images looked like "crap" but that the images looked VERY different in terms of color, tone, contrast, saturation, etc. and required MASSIVE amounts of work (days or weeks) to make hundreds of Canon photos look similar to hundreds of images that I took with my Nikon and Fuji gear.
The images MUST look similar because when all the images go into the wedding album it looks sloppy and unprofessional if the bride's skin tone looks pink in one photo and orange in the next photo.
I think the images from my Pentax gear look much more like the images I used to get from my Nikon/Fuji gear, which is why I don't have a problem if an assistant uses Nikon/Fuji gear now that I use Pentax ... but I still don't like to mix Canon and Pentax or Canon and Nikon/Fuji unless I have no other choice.
Consistency is the key to making a SET of photograph. I think canon does a good job with skintones....when they arent too orange. But I do NOT think canon can handle a tungsten light/skintone combo. I always see a deep red/orange in canon colors