billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

Personally I have found that Minolta lenses, Leica lenses, and Nikon lenses all produce their own unique color. Of course you can change these in post shooting in Raw.
Now with digital, Nikon expeed processors produce excellent color renderings.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Different cameras/lenses can produce slightly different colors. You'll see this if you read/watch camera comparisons.

In addition, most cameras have settings for Normal, Vivid, etc. Then there's post processing.

wmurnahan Loc: Bloomington IN

I never felt that the lenses had color. In pre computer days, some lens designs did focus the different colors better than others, Leica could get all three to focus on one spot, most old film cameras focused red at at different spot so lots of old cameras have a infrared focus point on the body, so reds would really pop in a picture taken with a Leica.

Pilarb1 Loc: Exton Pennsylvania

Hello 👋! There are not colors in lenses, only if you used filters
Pilar

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

This was a thing back in the days of slide film. Some lenses would be warm, some cool, and some maximum apertures were calibrated better than others, which was only a problem if you used hand-held or non-TTL meters. Because the slide film was the "sensor" and the chemicals were a fixed "process menu," we could see these small differences. Some of us compensated with filters.

Orphoto Loc: Oregon

Nice opinion with no basis in experience. I have 2 zeiss lenses that require a 200 degree kelvin compensation to match nikon. No filters involved. Yes postprocessing can easily correct. Not all glass is the same. And no it is not a color focussing apo effect.

wdross Loc: Castle Rock, Colorado

As Gene51 has said, one would have to colormetricly determine the very faint tints that lens glass would have. One thing that will affect the saturation, or the passing of color through the lens, is the lens's coating. I know for my Olympus 7-14 f2.8 Pro lens and Olympus 300 f4 Pro IS lens, the saturation is more than what I get from the older Olympus non-micro lenses of 14-54 f2.8/3.5 or 50-200 f2.8/3.5. The saturation is very noticeable in the 7-14 lens such that it appears sometimes to have the near saturation of a polarizer. The only way I can think of explaining how that can happen is by the use of newer and better coatings that manufacturers are now putting on the newer more expensive lenses. The color differences from a colorless standard for filters will be more than lenses but still very small. Unless one is talking a polarizer, warming filter, or red enhancement filter, I can think of no reason otherwise that a lens will increase color in a photo across the spectrum.

wide2tele Loc: Australia

Assume the lens has no color. The number of variables involved really doesn't allow any blanket statements to be made. These lens color statements have been around since the film days but they really are quite silly imo.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

They really only hold water if you are using slide film, or making JPEGs with 100% manual exposure and custom or fixed white balance. If AWB is in play, the difference in lens color is irrelevant. If negative color film or raw files are used, differences are compensated for in post-processing (darkroom/Lightroom).

markwilliam1

My Classic Minolta lenses have a better color rendition than my Sony lenses to my eyes.