Canon 7D picture style setting

I am new to 7D. Just bought it a few days ago and I am still learning it. Any suggestion on the picture styles setting? I know that I will use more often the standard, portrait and landscape when I shoot Jpeg or Jepg+Raw. Any suggestions for the levels of each parameter in these 3 styles? Or do you just stick with the preset levels of them?

What about those extra picture styles in canon's site? Do you find them useful or better than the preloaded one?

Thanks!

I shoot only RAW, so am not really knowledgeable about the picture styles. I think you'll find, however, that choosing one that fits what you're shooting and then adjusting the parameters so the images look like what you want them to look like straight out of the camera is the best approach. Other people's settings will tell you how they want their pictures to look, but that may not be how you want your pictures to look.

stsva wrote in post #9507309
I shoot only RAW, so am not really knowledgeable about the picture styles. I think you'll find, however, that choosing one that fits what you're shooting and then adjusting the parameters so the images look like what you want them to look like straight out of the camera is the best approach. Other people's settings will tell you how they want their pictures to look, but that may not be how you want your pictures to look.

Thanks.

Thus far I have left the setting on Standard. With RAW, this setting can easily be adjusted when processing.

I suggest sticking with the pre-sets until you are more familiar with the camera and its images. Then tinker to finetune to your shooting style and the type of image you prefer. For instance, the blog I just read at http://canonfieldrevie​ws.com/ suggests the 7D likes extra sharpening. I had wondered about the setting of 4 for sharpening in the standard style, but with words from the blog in mind, that setting makes more sense.

When doing quick jpegs i'll usually leave it on natural or standard. I use the other user defined banks more for the video side of things as I shoot various levels of "flat' then color correct or grade in post. I also like kodachrome.

Thank you all!

If you're using your histogram to check for clipping, then I have the style set to neutral with the no sharpening and -4 on contrast. I find it gives the best depiction of the RAW data using the on camera RGB histogram. I then batch adjust the RAW files when I down load.

windpig wrote in post #9527236
If you're using your histogram to check for clipping, then I have the style set to neutral with the no sharpening and -4 on contrast. I find it gives the best depiction of the RAW data using the on camera RGB histogram. I then batch adjust the RAW files when I down load.

Thank you for the tip.

windpig wrote in post #9527236
If you're using your histogram to check for clipping, then I have the style set to neutral with the no sharpening and -4 on contrast. I find it gives the best depiction of the RAW data using the on camera RGB histogram. I then batch adjust the RAW files when I down load.

This !