Color Spaces in 1D Mark II

[DwightMcCann]

Can anyone offer a rundown on the color spaces in the 1D Mark II? The default looks a bit undersaturated to me and the portrait looks a little red.

[tannoy]

Hi Dwight,

Do you have the manual? If so it gives a good rundown on the color spaces. I personally leave it set to Adobe RGB for the most part.

Darrin

[PacAce]

Can anyone offer a rundown on the color spaces in the 1D Mark II? The default looks a bit undersaturated to me and the portrait looks a little red.
The 1DmkII has two color spaces, sRGB and Adobe RGB. Since you're complaining about the color saturation and tone, I can only assume that you are shooting JPEG. If that's the case, you might want to up the Saturation from the default Standard to Mid-High or even High. As for the skin tone, you might want to decrease Tone from the default 0 to -1 or -2.

If you are not going to be doing any post processing of these images, I highly recommend you stick to sRGB. Otherwise, the JPEG images are going to look very washed out and under-saturated.

[KennyG]

PacAce, Dwight is referring to the color matrix settings, not the two color spaces.

As tannoy said, the manual is pretty accurate in describing what each matrix setting is suitable for. You have two choices (possibly three) -

Shoot RAW and they make no difference at all. The converter settings can be adjusted to what you prefer.
Try the same subject in each matrix setting until you find one you like. I know people shooting weddings with matrix 3, which on paper isn't the best choice.
Lastly, create your own custom curve, easy to do and it can be tuned how you want rather than take someone elses idea of the correct setting.

[PacAce]

PacAce, Dwight is referring to the color matrix settings, not the two color spaces.

As tannoy said, the manual is pretty accurate in describing what each matrix setting is suitable for. You have two choices (possibly three) -

Shoot RAW and they make no difference at all. The converter settings can be adjusted to what you prefer.
Try the same subject in each matrix setting until you find one you like. I know people shooting weddings with matrix 3, which on paper isn't the best choice.
Lastly, create your own custom curve, easy to do and it can be tuned how you want rather than take someone elses idea of the correct setting.
Thanks for the clarification, Kenny. You can read Dwight's mind better than I can. ;)

[DwightMcCann]

Aw, c'mon, I was talking about everything! But it looks like Pekka et alia are going to convert me to RAW, sigh.