Color science is the term we use to describe the ‘look’ of colors from particular cameras or brands. It sounds like it should have a definite technical basis, but it’s actually quite hard to pin down because it seems to mean different things to different people.
Any photographic image is the result of a complex series of processes, from the analog values captured by the photosites on the sensor through the analog-digital conversion, in-camera RAW processing and demosaicing, white balance, camera profiles and, if you shoot RAW files, your software’s own processing engine and profiles.
