Nikon vs Canon in colors?

So i have the Nikon D7000 and most of my friends prefer Canon but i like Nikon more, but i noticed that pictures taken with Canon ( lets say 650d ) are rich and brighter in colors while the Nikon brings out darker images, ( btw its not the settings or any thing but i noticed this after comparing different Pro's pictures ) … So does any one have any idea about this?

It all has to do with how you set up your camera

Most of my colleagues shoot in RAW and use a custom white balance when a number of photographers are shooting the same event. Using Xrite Colorchecker Passport, All the cameras produce the same colours using those custom white balance associated to each camera, whether a Nikon, Canon, Pentax or Sony cameras are used.

This makes our post production people extremely happy and reduces the turn around from a week to days

It's the way Canon does it.

In the color control menu settings, Canon boosts the saturation up by default so the colors look prettier. However, Nikon takes a more conservative approach and leaves color control settings to reflect a more natural photo.

These are default settings, and you can go into the color control panel on your Nikon and set color saturation, set for vivid colors, adjust the sharpening and a hundred other color and image settings. You can make the colors pop as much or more than the Canon if you wish.

Also, if you underexpose by 1/3rd stop or so, you will get nicer looking colors.

If you look at the Dxomark sensor comparison, the Canon 650d sensor has a Color Depth rating of 21.7 bits, and a Dynamic Range of 11.2Ev, while the D7000 sensor has a superior Color Depth rating of 23.5bits and a Dynamic Range of 13.9EV.

This means the D7000 is superior to the 650d in both color rendition and dynamic range, and should yield a much better photo. However, since Canon boosts their colors by default, it fools people into thinking Canon is better.

Again, this is because by default, Nikon cameras are set to more natural colors.

You can set the Nikon D7000 to boost the colors as well, and it should then look that much better than the 650d according to dxomark values.

You have to at some point ask yourself why Canon would do this if not to make an inferior camera look superior.

Note that these settings only affect JPGs (and sometimes the display) but not RAW files. RAW files are neutral files (no color processing done in the camera) regardless of camera brand.

AWBoater pretty much summed it all up.

I noticed the same thing with my friends Canon 60d vs my D7000. When I tried his 60D I noticed how vivid the colors looked compared to my D7000.

The D7000 was producing colors exactly as I was seeing them. The Canon on the other hand was producing colors that made the pics look more colorful but to be honest the colors aren't accurate at all. Everything is just too vivid.

Even my Nikon D3100 and ancient Nikon D70 will show accurate colors compared to Canon.

If I waned to I could set my picture control in all three bodies to vivid and then increase the contrast to make my colors really pop. However I like taking pictures of what I'm seeing. I want my camera to record what I'm seeing. If I want to boost the color's and make my images look a bit fake then I'll play with the colors.