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Downloading Picture Styles from camera - is it possible?

Started Dec 15, 2017 | Questions thread
Lemming51
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Re: Downloading Picture Styles from camera - is it possible?
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role_of_72 wrote:

Hi,

I am planning to sell my trusty 450D which has some quite good custom Picture Styles on it. As I could not find the .pf2 files on my PC I'd like to ask you if it is possible to download these styles from the camera?

I could not find any information on it online, so might just be impossible (for the standard user at least) but I thought it'd worth asking.

Thank you!

check if they're hiding in a \pf2\ folder in your DPP directory, e.g.

C:\Program Files\Canon\Digital Photo Professional\pf2

EOS Utility is used to upload custom picture styles from the computer to the camera. I don't think it or PS Editor or DPP has a feature for downloading from the camera.

If these custom picture styles were developed/published by Canon or other third party, they're likely still available online.

e.g. "Autumn Hues", "Emerald", "Twilight", etc. from Canon: http://www.canon.co.jp/imaging/picturestyle/index.html

Flickr sharing forum: https://www.flickr.com/groups/canoncustompicturestyles

https://www.cnet.com/how-to/best-picture-styles-for-slrs/

If they're simply modifications you made with the slider controls to the built-in styles, you can easily reproduce them with the same slider settings. If you built them from scratch in PS Editor, then maybe you kept some notes on their creation?

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