emulating picture styles on the 20D?

what parameter settings can you use on the 20D to mimic picture styles?

You can't really, because beyond changes in contrast, saturation and sharpness (which you can change in the jpg parameters) Picture Styles also have unique color relationships. For instance, Landscape boosts blues and greens, but without altering the WB. Autumn emphasizes yellows, oranges and reds. The three Portrait styles boost red in differing degrees. Faithful is colormetrically accurate for sunlight.

What you can do is to shoot Raw and apply the Picture Styles in DPP.

so the only way would be to boost saturation in specific colors in LR after the fact?
Raw isn't really an option for me (speed of computer/ hard drive space, all that fun stuff).
But I guess I'll just set all my sharpness to +1, and have varying degrees of contrast and saturation for different subjects as far as parameters go.
Then I'll PP later to get my desired effect I guess.

Do you actually use the Picture Styles on whatever camera? I saw them in Canon's brochure and they intrigued me.
I wonder why Canon didn't just offer a firmware update for the 20D with pic styles on it...

If you use DPP, then you can actually apply the typical Picture Styles there.

gregjp48 wrote in post #4979670
I wonder why Canon didn't just offer a firmware update for the 20D with pic styles on it...

Canon doesn't do that. They put out a new camera model instead. For example, picture styles was one of the big differences between the 1DmkII and the 1DmkIIN. In the case of the 20D, they came out with the 30D.

Canon has never provided a firmware update to any DSLR where the update added new features, aside from rare updates to allow new hardware to be used with a current camera model (such as the update to allow the WFT to be used with the 20D).

gregjp48 wrote in post #4979670
Raw isn't really an option for me (speed of computer/ hard drive space, all that fun stuff).

Have you tried handling RAW files on your computer? What are your specs?

nicksan wrote in post #4981125
If you use DPP, then you can actually apply the typical Picture Styles there.

Thats my advice - Shoot RAW and just select the style you want from the drop-down menu in DPP and job done.

Or - You could always get a new 40D and do it in-camera...

ibook G4 12" 1.33Ghz with a gig of ram
I mean with Lightroom of course. I could probably set them up to process overnight or something, but it would be laggy using lightroom, and I have a 55GB hard drive, not something to use for raw.
I'd buy a new computer, but lenses are far more important to me at the moment, especially since I just broke the autofocus on my kit lens by dropping it.

gregjp48 wrote in post #4987640
ibook G4 12" 1.33Ghz with a gig of ram
I mean with Lightroom of course. I could probably set them up to process overnight or something, but it would be laggy using lightroom, and I have a 55GB hard drive, not something to use for raw.
I'd buy a new computer, but lenses are far more important to me at the moment, especially since I just broke the autofocus on my kit lens by dropping it.

Have you tried using DPP on your laptop. It is not nearly as processor intensive as Lightroom. What processing are you talking about? If you want to apply Styles to all pictures of a shoot it takes about 10 seconds.

no what i mean is the only raw workflow I could think of using would be a lightroom non destructive one due to hd space constraints, and my laptop just isn't powerful enough to work with the raw files using lightroom anyway.

Having tiffs on my hd would be a lot harder than jpegs, and I don't see the benefit of raw that would cause me to buy new hard drives rather than lenses (my budget is fairly tight)