5d and picture styles

Those of you with a 5d and shooting raw--where do you normally keep the picture style setting?

TerryM wrote in post #2796157
Those of you with a 5d and shooting raw--where do you normally keep the picture style setting?

The 5D [MARK-III, and 30D as well] PICTURE STYLES do not have ANY effect on RAW. They only effect JPG output.

He's right. Whether I'm shooting RAW or JPEG, though, I tend to keep it on "Neutral". I like to get an idea of what it looks like with just slight sharpening and saturation/contrast. Gives me an idea of the image's potential. If you have image review turned on, the jpeg that shows will be "picture styled", but the RAW file will not. Each RAW has a small jpeg attached.

Ronald S. Jr. wrote in post #2796209
He's right. Whether I'm shooting RAW or JPEG, though, I tend to keep it on "Neutral". I like to get an idea of what it looks like with just slight sharpening and saturation/contrast. Gives me an idea of the image's potential. If you have image review turned on, the jpeg that shows will be "picture styled", but the RAW file will not. Each RAW has a small jpeg attached.

Sorry, looks like I misunderstood the question.

I meant that you were right.

I just mentioned the other part in case it might help them. I didn't really answer it either!

Picture styles do not affect the raw sensor data.

Picture styles do affect the JPEG preview that is embedded in the Raw file. This preview is what you see on the camera's LCD display, and some software uses it, also.

The preview is also used to generate the histograms, so picture styles affect the histograms.

The Raw file is also tagged with the name of the picture style that was selected when the picture was shot. Canon Raw converters (Raw Image Task and Digital Photo Professional) use this as the "as shot" picture style. The same is true of Raw converters that use the Canon SDK—notably BreezeBrowser. Other Raw converters ignore this tag.

As an experiment, try shooting Raw with the Monochrome picture style to see some of the effects.

Actually, there is more to this question than is being discussed.

The picture styles CAN be applied to RAW images when you use DPP for your RAW conversion. The RAW file itself will not be effected, but the JPEG or TIFF file you create will be. I keep my styles in a folder on my system... but hardly ever apply them.

I have a 30D and have been concerned that it was not resolving images at my lenses wides focal length(24-105) as well as I expected. I shoot RAW and Canon told me the reason was because in picture styles I had the sharpness set to 0.
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I thought the picture style did not effect raw, but I noticed on the display it did. I guess that is what has confused me. I shoot raw and it has always been on standard. I have been using Rawshooter, then PS cs2 and now Lightroom to process the raw files.

It doesn't affect the RAW, Terry. It affects the tiny jpeg that's attached to the RAW file.