Colour Space
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[insert standard response about 'if you don't know the difference you ought to stick with sRGB' here]
Joking aside, this has been covered a hundred times already. Use the search button.
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Joking aside, this has been covered a hundred times already. Use the search button.
And if that's not working, search for 'sRGB' and User Name 'pxl8'.
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See this thread. It's about Canon,s but will give the jist of what you want to know.
http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=103342&highlight=sRGB+AdobeRGB
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http://www.talkphotography.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=103342&highlight=sRGB+AdobeRGB
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If you know the output can handle AdobeRGB then use that, otherwise it will be better to use sRGB.
If you are only displaying on the web then also best to use sRGB
Most older printers can only handle sRGB, most of the newer Epson Photo Printers can handle Adobe RGB.
Paul
If you are only displaying on the web then also best to use sRGB
Most older printers can only handle sRGB, most of the newer Epson Photo Printers can handle Adobe RGB.
Paul
If you shoot in RAW it makes no difference whatsoever. The RAW does not have a colourspace per se and you can use whichever one you like during ACR conversion. This setting on Nikon will be recorded as some informational tag on your RAW image - Capture NX then uses it to default the space it places your data into during RAW conversion. ACR as far as I remember allows you to choose it explicitly for each conversion.
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You might...
I've said it before but it's worth repeating...
Unless your output device can handle the extra saturation of the larger colour space AND the image is using it then you're not gaining anything, just losing smoothness in the tonality.
I can't remember the name of the lab that someone linked to recently but they also recommended AdobeRGB. I downloaded their profiles to see if they could support a larger colour space, they couldn't - their profiles were actually smaller than sRGB in most places so they were asking people to use a colour space they have no hope of supporting
Edit to add:
A simple example I used in another thread:
Compares saturation between sRGB and AdobeRGB (relative
Compares sRGB and the printing profile from DSCL which clearly shows that a decent lab can't print the full range of saturation in sRGB let alone AdobeRGB.
The trick is to process images to the limits of the output device rather than exceed it.
I've said it before but it's worth repeating...
Unless your output device can handle the extra saturation of the larger colour space AND the image is using it then you're not gaining anything, just losing smoothness in the tonality.
I can't remember the name of the lab that someone linked to recently but they also recommended AdobeRGB. I downloaded their profiles to see if they could support a larger colour space, they couldn't - their profiles were actually smaller than sRGB in most places so they were asking people to use a colour space they have no hope of supporting
Edit to add:
A simple example I used in another thread:
Compares saturation between sRGB and AdobeRGB (relative
Compares sRGB and the printing profile from DSCL which clearly shows that a decent lab can't print the full range of saturation in sRGB let alone AdobeRGB.
The trick is to process images to the limits of the output device rather than exceed it.