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Do You shoot in RGB or sRGB? Please vote
I have been reading some articles lately and am curious as to the color space your camera is set to. According to these articles, unless you have a reall expensive monitor (read that as several thousand dollars) your monitor only sees in sRGB. So the extra colorspace in RGB is not visible to you. They also say that most print labs want sRGB. Until now, most everything I have read says RGB only. The exception is for commercial and editorial shooters. Please vote and give your opinion, and experience if you have compared both.
I should add that I shoot in RGB and my workspace is RGB. I shoot raw and work 16bit files.
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Re: Do You shoot in RGB or sRGB? Please vote
The bottom line on this is, if you print your own work and in 16 bit USE Adobe RGB, it your mainly web based or use online print houses use sRGB
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My advice is to know which colors your image uses, and whether these can benefit from the additional colors afforded by Adobe RGB 1998. Ask yourself: do you really need the richer cyan-green midtones, orange-magenta highlights, or green shadows? Will these colors also be visible in the final print? Will these differences even be noticeable? If you've answered "no" to any of these questions, then you would be better served using sRGB. sRGB will make the most of your bit depth because it allocates more bits to encoding the colors present in your image. In addition, sRGB can simplify your workflow since this color space is also used for displaying images on the internet.
What if you desire a speedy workflow, and do not wish to decide on your working space using a case-by-case method? My advice is to use Adobe RGB 1998 if you normally work with 16-bit images, and sRGB if you normally work with 8-bit images. Even if you may not always use the extra colors, you never want to eliminate them as a possibility for those images which require them.
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Re: Do You shoot in RGB or sRGB? Please vote
My camera is set to Adobe RGB and all my development is done in ProPhoto RGB
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Re: Do You shoot in RGB or sRGB? Please vote
Camera set to sRGB just in case I ever shoot jpg but I normally shoot RAW and process everything in Prophoto
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Re: Do You shoot in RGB or sRGB? Please vote
ditto the above, srgb but normally work with raw. I will have to investigate adobe. Thanks for the tip.
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Re: Do You shoot in RGB or sRGB? Please vote
RAW -> AdobeRGB
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Re: Do You shoot in RGB or sRGB? Please vote
raw to sRGB
the screen is in sRGB
as I send prints out, they want it in sRGB
but if I have the raw I can always go back and change the colorspace
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RGB for me.
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Re: Do You shoot in RGB or sRGB? Please vote
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raw to sRGB
the screen is in sRGB
as I send prints out, they want it in sRGB
And this is the point of the article really. Becouse the screen is sRGB, you are not seeing all the colors in the RGB color space, and thus could be clipping those colors. More for color photos I suppose. Don't really have enough personal experience with it, and thus the poll.
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Re: Do You shoot in RGB or sRGB? Please vote
I know a couple of flower 'togs who dislike sRGB for the poor gamut leading to degraded detail, especially reds - so they regularly complain about sRGB (and use AdobeRGB)
Clipping is "easy" enough to spot in the histograms (aside from the flat detailess look that it'll give)
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