ok you camera heads..


the more I read about the two color settings, the more confused I am. What do you guys use and why?

from what I can tell, most say to use Adobe RGB since you will have all of the colors that are contained in sRGB and the extra needed if you are making photo prints.

 

http://www.smugmug.com/help/srgb-versus-adobe-rgb-1998

http://www.nulab.com.au/newsletter/n...ViaAdobe02.htm

http://phototechnic.blogspot.com/200...lorspaces.html

cheers!

p.s. muhahahahah :-*

 

thank you for linking me to what I have already read 100's of times

I was asking for personal preferences from the other people on the forums

Kisses4U :-*

 

I use sRGB almost all the time, unless someone specifically requests Adobe RGB. This is mainly because the printers in most labs and the color representation over the web and most PCs are set to expect sRGB. Adobe RGB images look a lot more washed out, and transitions in color do not look as nice.

JPG files are 8 bit so a jpg in Adobe RGB and a jpg in sRGB both use a set of 256 reds, greens and blues the only difference is that Adobe RGB covers a wider range. Because of this, the variance from red 1 and red 2 is greater than it would be with sRGB. Adobe RGB does not contain the same colors as sRGB and then some, it just uses some of the same colors and some that are outside the range of sRGB.

I have also noticed that expecially at higher ISO settings, there is a lot more grain in the Adobe RGB than there is with sRGB.

If you are taking pictures for the web or to have prints made you will eventually convert it to JPG even if it was shot in RAW for printing purposes, so I would just use sRGB.

If you are taking pictures for professional print/brochures etc the person compiling the final product may want Adobe RGB. They will also want a TIFF image or the original RAW image - these formats can take advantage of the wider range of colors that Adobe RGB has available to it. Most photo processing places will convert an Adobe RGB image to sRGB before they print it, and this will usually throw off the color corrections and post processing you had done to the image.

 

perfect !

thanks Dan