Leaf backs were always perceived to produce great colour and a certain “look”........snip
Yair
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. At times I can promise you the Leaf looks more film like than a Phase or kodak sensored camera, other times I'd say not, same with Canon, Nikon, Panasonic, Leica.
I am positive all of these cameras and the resulting processors, whether proprietary or 3rd party can produce subtle to widely different results, mostly subject light dependent.
Then again going to final, none of this matters that much as every image will go through rounds of post and rounds of coloring, toning, etc.
We've also gone through stages in still digital capture, to the point most of the changes I see come from the software processing, not the physical back. Clients don't ask about file size, camera makes, bit depth, at least not now, they ask about the project, the price, the location, the price, the catering, the price.
It's kind of funny that of all the processors I work, Lightroom , C1-v5, CS4 extended and Raw developer, RD (though a somewhat clunky interface) has the most controllable features and in my view the most "film like" result regardless of the camera or back.
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