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What do you owners of Canon cameras with picture styles have them set to?
I use RAW all the time and didnt think it affected RAW shots, but it does.
Apparently even if you turn all settings to the same...... there are inbuilt settings for each which you cant change.

I had hoped to be able to completely turn them OFF but dont seem to be able to. Is faithful the best to go for in this circumstance?
 
I am not 100% sure but these settings should only affect the embedded JPG file not the RAW file.
 
Only Canon software reads Picture Styles. ie DPP etc

Other RAW software does not.

you can tag the RAW file with the chosen picture style, and if opened in DPP or any Canon software it will read them. Same as you can apply the picture styles to the RAW file.

But in other manufactures RAW software it wont read / interprite the picture style tag therefore its not applied.

Try taking 2 photos one with picture styles and one with out, open both in Canon software you should see the diffrence. Then open the RAW files in some other third party converter and you shouldnt see any diffrence between the photos.
 
You can set to user defined Janice - and set each parameter to where you want it. when I was shooting that Rugby the other week and the light was so flat and horrible I set up a user defined setting for that with the contrast and sat boosted. Normally (I'd have to check to be certain) I keep it on faithful (or is it neutral? can't totally remember!).
 
As mho01 says, the Picture Style settings only affect RAW images viewed in Canon software, but have no effect in 3rd party RAW image software as it doesn't recognize the data.
 
If shooting in JPG I use a picture style relevant to the shot I'm taking. However, if I'm shooting in RAW (which I am more and more) I have the picture style set to neutral, I then tend to flick through them all in DPP to see which looks best
 
Thanks chaps! I could see a difference in RAW in the lcd so I thought there would be a difference in the final photo. I never use jpg so i should be ok (may have a quick look at the DPP software and check the differences in there...as I have never used it yet!) ;)
 
Janice said:
Thanks chaps! I could see a difference in RAW in the lcd so I thought there would be a difference in the final photo. I never use jpg so i should be ok (may have a quick look at the DPP software and check the differences in there...as I have never used it yet!) ;)
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I tend to do my RAW conversion in Adobe Camera RAW Janice but I find DPP very useful for previewing the picture styles - it kind of gives you an idea of what you can get out of the picture. I'd love DPP if it had the same functionality as Camera RAW but for RAW conversion I actually find it quite limiting (apart from the picture style feature!)
 
I could see a difference in RAW in the lcd so I thought there would be a difference in the final photo
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This is one of my main gripes with canon. The LCD preview and the histogram are derived from the jpeg and not the RAW file. Even when you're only capturing RAW files.
 
dazzajl said:
This is one of my main gripes with canon. The LCD preview and the histogram are derived from the jpeg and not the RAW file. Even when you're only capturing RAW files.
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Ah thanks for that...that explains things! :thumbs:
 
As stated, raw files contain an embedded JPG which is used for the preview, and this is the same as taking a shot in the small fine JPG mode. This is partly why even zooming in on the camera can be misleading at judging how sharp an image may be, as in my opinion the small JPGs suck.

It also means it is not worth use raw+small fine mode as you are just wasting memory card space. As I like also having a JPG, it is quicker and easier to preview on computer, I have a little script which uses exiftool to extract the JPG to a file for this purpose.

Michael.
 
The way I use them is to shoot with an idea of what I want the final shot to be like. Quite often I put the 30D into black n white mode and shoot RAW's like that. I still have to convert them later but its nice to see something not far off the final result there and then. Its also great for clients :)
 
Sounds much too complicated for me.....


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or does it apply to them too...:shrug:
 
Thanks, that explains why my mates shots look better in the back of his Nikon..... but not later on a PC! :P
 
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