in camera parameters and photoshop cs

[RJCONKLIN]

i have a canon 10d and photoshop cs. if i set the in camera parameters to standard and take a picture then set it to adobe rgb and do the same; file viewer shows shot either as rgb or adobe rgb in the exif. photoshop cs shows both as being adobe rgb. what am i missing? why is this? does it make any difference what the camera setting is? does photoshop automatically convert everything to adobe rgb? thank you.

[PacAce]

i have a canon 10d and photoshop cs. if i set the in camera parameters to standard and take a picture then set it to adobe rgb and do the same; file viewer shows shot either as rgb or adobe rgb in the exif. photoshop cs shows both as being adobe rgb. what am i missing? why is this? does it make any difference what the camera setting is? does photoshop automatically convert everything to adobe rgb? thank you.

Photoshop will convert the color space to whatever you have photoshop set to. PS doesn't seem to care what you have set in your camera parameter. It only cares about what you have it set to in the raw converter.

[scottbergerphoto]

It is irrelevant what color space you have the camera set to when you shoot RAW. No color space is assigned until you convert the RAW file to the space of your choice in the converter. You can convert the same RAW file to all the available color spaces in your converter. Hence the beauty of shooting RAW. With JPEGs however, you are stuck with whichever space you chose in the camera. You can convert an sRGB JPEG to AdobeRGB but you gain nothing, because the color gamut was already limited to sRGB by the camera.
Regards,
Scott

[RJCONKLIN]

if photoshop cs does the conversion to any colorspace, does this mean in camera settings such as standard and adobe rgb are useless? thank you.

[scottbergerphoto]

if photoshop cs does the conversion to any colorspace, does this mean in camera settings such as standard and adobe rgb are useless? thank you.
When shooting RAW, yes. When shooting JPEG, the camera settings apply. Just make sure the camera is set to RAW.
Regards,
Scott

[RJCONKLIN]

thanks all for the information!!!