I think they have a look to them. But my experience is limited.
With the CCD cameras I've owned and still use, I see a difference, our crew sees a difference, our retoucher sees a difference, when client's select images from our portfolio about 70% are from CCD images and since more than half of what we show is from cmos cameras, that's interesting.
I know the assistants see a difference because they all ask to borrow the contax/phase and now the leica and they don't ask unless they really want something.
Though except for certain situations, I'm off the ten billion iso, 600 frames a set squirrel wheel.
Due to budget and time restraints I got into that but 400 frames of junk is 400 frames of junk. I'd rather have 20 good options that work.
I'm also off the we'll fix it in post style of working. That only goes so far and post production should be a part of the beginning creative brief, not a band aid to fix something.
To me CCD cameras work great in post processing.
Whether the look comes from a filter array, the convertor or the sensor I don't really care. I just know what I see and I see it from the cropped sensor M8 to the p21+, p30+, Aptus 22 and the Leica S2.
In fact I bought the Leica because I knew cmos was coming and I thought I should get in while there was still something left to get.
A great byproduct of the S2 was how well it handled HMI and even LED lighting. We do a lot of parallel productions with motion and stills and usually my cmos camera files look washed out and thin with hmi lighting, the ccd has bit and color.
All of the samples I've posted from the S2 were continuous lighting, mostly hmi.
and this is the original crop
This was a one off from the same session with the oly em-1 and it's pretty it worked, but it's a much more fragile file than the Leica and much more difficult to separate colors.
Anyway, we shoot a lot of images, This is 9 months of master raws
and I stopped counting numbers when we crossed the 300 terabyte count. (which obviously covers a number of years). though I based my opinion ONLY on my experience.
I don't know or care how other photographers get their results, that's none of my business.
But let me be clear, that doesn't mean I'm right, it just means I'm right for me. We all work differently, we all have different end agendas and obviously different opinions.
IMO
BC