Shooting W/AdobeRGB Color Tone?

[dfuccillo]

My Canon EOS 10D is capable of shooting with Adobe RGB color tone. What are the advantages of this? Since I use Elements 3.0, would I have any benefits:lol: ?

Thanks for everyones help!

Dave Fuccillo

[Dante King]

You would definately have a match, if you set up your working space correctly, with the camera profile and editing software.

I shoot in Adobe RGB as well. I know that I am going to have to do some post processing to the pic before printing. As well. I think that this profile is not a vibrant as some possible with the camera, but for me my monitor, PSCS and printers are all set to Adobe RGB profiles. And as I said I plan to muck with them later.

[scottbergerphoto]

My Canon EOS 10D is capable of shooting with Adobe RGB color tone. What are the advantages of this? Since I use Elements 3.0, would I have any benefits:lol: ?

Thanks for everyones help!

Dave Fuccillo
The main advantage to shooting in Adobe RGB for Jpeg, or converting to Adobe RGB from Raw, is that it is a larger color gamut then sRGB. That means if your image has colors outside the range of sRGB, you will be able to capture and print images with more colors then if you used sRGB. Many good inkjet printers are able to print more colors then the sRGB color space allows.
When you shoot Raw, the color space setting of the camera doesn't matter. You can select a color space in conversion.
For a look at color gamuts for various color spaces and printers, go to www.rogercavanaugh.com
Regards,
Scott

[Dante King]

scott, that link does not seem to work.

[renenger]

I have heard a number of people mention that if shooting in RAW, the color space gets defined when the image is converted from RAW. I am shooting with a D60 and have been using RAW Image Converter 2 to convert my RAW images, but have not been able to find where I can define AdoveRGB as the color space. Whenever I open a converted image in PS, I note that a color space has not been embedded. Should I be using different conversion software?

Thank You.

[PacAce]

I have heard a number of people mention that if shooting in RAW, the color space gets defined when the image is converted from RAW. I am shooting with a D60 and have been using RAW Image Converter 2 to convert my RAW images, but have not been able to find where I can define AdoveRGB as the color space. Whenever I open a converted image in PS, I note that a color space has not been embedded. Should I be using different conversion software?

Thank You.
That may be due to the fact that the D60 does not have the ability to shoot in Adobe RGB color space (as far as I can tell).

[renenger]

Hey PacAce, my understanding is that you are correct when the D60 automatically saves the image as a jpg, but when saving the RAW data, the camera is not actually using a color space. As such, I don't think it matters for RAW images the color space limitation of the camera. Is that correct?

[PacAce]

Well, according to the D60 specifications, the image recording format is sRGB compliant so that would be the limitation of the RAW image itself also. In other words, converting to Adobe RGB during conversion is not going to give you a wider color gamut than you'd get when converting to sRGB. The 10D (and later models), on the other hand, does support the Adobe color space so with the 10D, there will be a difference between converting to Adobe RGB and converting to sRGB.

I hope I read your question correctly.

[edit] That's not to say that you shouldn't convert D60 RAW to Adobe RGB, though, since you can still benefit from doing that when you are editing the image even though the original color data only falls in the sRGB range.