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I just had an epiphany on why it’s so hard to to accurately depict Python Green (and similar colours like Viper Green, Signal Green, and Porsche Green) - these colours are outside the sRGB colour space! Thus, cameras only calibrated to accurately represent colours in the sRGB space will fail to correctly represent this colour.
However, it should be possible to select a colour within the sRGB space that reasonably resembles the true colour. I’ll try to do this next time I drop by my dealer.
Make sense...I think it turns out darker in most videos/pictures.
If there was a way to purchase one of those Porsche Paint samples.....
I have on my way samples of various green stitchings on a piece of leather will upload the pics once it gets here.
Two good choices. The Classic GT silver would be nice, but if you’re going to Python green, I would mute the interior with silver stitching instead of the yellow, with silver wheels and black calipers. Also ask yourself, would you be able to handle looking at PG day in day out moving forward? Or would you want something more classic and easier on the eyes like Silver.
Originally Posted by wizee
Seeing some more photos, I suspect Python Green is too bright for my taste in real life. In the dimmer photo below, it looks alright to me, but I don't like the way it looks in the first photo in full sunlight here.
I'm starting to second guess my memory of the paint sample, now that I've seen so many vastly different looking photos of the same colour. They look nothing alike apart from being variations on the theme of green. A list of examples for reference:
I need to go back to the dealership one of these days, and spend some time adjusting the colour of my mockups with my colour calibrated laptop while holding the paint sample in hand in various lighting conditions. Here's the last mockup I made, but I no longer trust myself to be correctly remembering how the sample looked. This mockup looks quite different from the eight reference photos above, but those eight photos also look nothing like each other. This colour seems very difficult to photograph accurately. Frustratingly, it seems Rennlist also tampers with the colours when I upload images, so the image below is more saturated than it should be.
I'm starting to second guess my memory of the paint sample, now that I've seen so many vastly different looking photos of the same colour. They look nothing alike apart from being variations on the theme of green. A list of examples for reference:
I need to go back to the dealership one of these days, and spend some time adjusting the colour of my mockups with my colour calibrated laptop while holding the paint sample in hand in various lighting conditions. Here's the last mockup I made, but I no longer trust myself to be correctly remembering how the sample looked. This mockup looks quite different from the eight reference photos above, but those eight photos also look nothing like each other. This colour seems very difficult to photograph accurately. Frustratingly, it seems Rennlist also tampers with the colours when I upload images, so the image below is more saturated than it should be.
Lol, having the exact same frustrating thoughts. Nice pic compilation, btw. Shows the wide range of greens in which this single color can appear. And what if it's not just about how it photographs but it actually changes like that in real life under different lighting conditions? My favorite by far is this one:
Lol, having the exact same frustrating thoughts. Nice pic compilation, btw. Shows the wide range of greens in which this single color can appear. And what if it's not just about how it photographs but it actually changes like that in real life under different lighting conditions? My favorite by far is this one:
Some of the others are a real turn off.
Yup. I don't know if I love the colour or hate it now.
Experimenting some more, I found that Firefox renders colours on photos uploaded to Rennlist differently than Safari on my Mac. With the original render I made, it renders the same (expected) way on Safari and Firefox. However, on the version of the image modified by Rennlist during upload, it renders the original (expected) way on Safari, but renders in an oversaturated manner on Firefox.
Not only does this colour seem to look completely different depending on the photo, but it also looks substantially different depending on which web browser you use...
EDIT: I realized what's happening. The original JPEG that renders the expected way specifies it uses the sRGB colour profile, and web browsers adjust the colours from the sRGB profile to the display's native colour profile. When I upload to Rennlist, it removes the metadata indicating the colour profile is sRGB. Firefox renders images without a colour profile as using display native colours, while Safari renders images without a specified colour profile as sRGB.
EDIT 2: It's a Firefox issue, but there is a way to fix it. If you're using Firefox, go into "about:config" and change gfx.color_management.mode from 2 to 1, then restart the web browser. After that, colours in photos will render correctly across the internet. You can confirm this by visiting https://cameratico.com/tools/web-bro...nagement-test/ and checking that the top and bottom halves of each RGB test case look the same.
Sorry, as I know this is dated, but wanted to update anyone on the fence about Python Green.
I know these are just more pictures and indeed, it’s hard to get an accurate picture of this color... but for those that loved the old viper green, this is pretty special. We just took delivery of our ‘21 Spyder and my wife and I were absolutely breathless when they rolled it out of the trailer. The delivery guy was super complimentary of the color, and my mom and son were blown away. We were takers of Sapphire Blue on the last Spyder and if you aren’t afraid of color or just hate green, this is far more exciting and special. This doesn’t look like those army green photos that pop up occasionally. It’s also darker than the lizard green, with much less yellow tint. We were complaining that the lizard green was pulled... but after seeing both of the colors, we would have ordered the Python without hesitation.
It has been a while since I’ve seen Viper green in person, but that has got to be the closest to it. Keep in mind, the GTI in the garage is silver white, not plain white... as a point of reference.
Sorry, as I know this is dated, but wanted to update anyone on the fence about Python Green.
I know these are just more pictures and indeed, it’s hard to get an accurate picture of this color... but for those that loved the old viper green, this is pretty special. We just took delivery of our ‘21 Spyder and my wife and I were absolutely breathless when they rolled it out of the trailer. The delivery guy was super complimentary of the color, and my mom and son were blown away. We were takers of Sapphire Blue on the last Spyder and if you aren’t afraid of color or just hate green, this is far more exciting and special. This doesn’t look like those army green photos that pop up occasionally. It’s also darker than the lizard green, with much less yellow tint. We were complaining that the lizard green was pulled... but after seeing both of the colors, we would have ordered the Python without hesitation.
It has been a while since I’ve seen Viper green in person, but that has got to be the closest to it. Keep in mind, the GTI in the garage is silver white, not plain white... as a point of reference.
Awesome colour choice, I have a buddy who choose the same colour for his GT4 arriving later this month, I can't wait to see it in person!
I go back and forth between the 2 extremes of gt silver with classic interior and python green with black interior.
whilst I love the green (I think pics don’t do it justice), I’m not sure I could live with it being the center of attention every weekend.
i had a yellow gt4 and it wasn’ t bad but athough I owned it for 2 years, I put a total of 2000 miles on it. Maybe yellow did put me off and to a certain extent I think it makes sense on a track car.
anyone out there thinks it’ll be great for a month or two but not so appealing on a long term basis?
I go back and forth between the 2 extremes of gt silver with classic interior and python green with black interior.
whilst I love the green (I think pics don’t do it justice), I’m not sure I could live with it being the center of attention every weekend.
i had a yellow gt4 and it wasn’ t bad but athough I owned it for 2 years, I put a total of 2000 miles on it. Maybe yellow did put me off and to a certain extent I think it makes sense on a track car.
anyone out there thinks it’ll be great for a month or two but not so appealing on a long term basis?
All I can say is that I’ve had my Python Green GT4 for two months now, and don’t see any point where I will tire of the color!
I know this is an old thread but I was struggling with the same PG exterior with lizard seat belts/ stitching decision. I’m firmly in the thumbs up category on this. My feeling is it’s like mixing green with yellow belts. It works
On the new 2023 911T model configurator, Porsche offers hard back seats painted in Python. If you click on the photo in the hardback option you get this stock pic. Python hardbacks and lizard belts. If it works for Porsche it works.
Both specs you are considering are very nice. Can’t really go wrong with either.
If my wife didn't mock me by calling it Kermit the Frog every time I showed her the pic that is exactly what my car would look like. With this interior.
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