Can I change the colour profile on my Canon 5D ?

[nev stanikk]

My old Fuji S3Pro used to produce far punchier colours than my Canon 5D so I wondered if some of the difference is down to the colour profile? The Fuji used to take pics using a sRGBIEC61966-2.1 profile whereas the Canon uses Adobe RGB 1998. Can I, or should I, alter this?

I notice the menu on the 5D has a box for "Colour Space" but only one item - sRGB - in it. Should there be, could there be, more?

 

[expro]

you can set any colour profile you like.

Canon tends towards neturality of colours and these can as RAW look washed out until you process. They do this because it is a far easier base than starting with a strong profile you don't like...so suits more people more of the time.

try the Xrite passport/colourchecker s/w. very easy to use. and not stupdily expensive.

 

[RS_RS]

expro wrote:

you can set any colour profile you like.

The two in-camera choices for colour space are sRGB and AdobeRGB. But if you are shooting RAW, all this does is to set a flag to tell DPP how to process the file, and you can change that when using DPP. You cannot set a colour profile (in the usual sense) in the camera. In my view, it would be very useful if, as an extension to the Custom WB capability, you could take a photograph of a Colour Checker and have the camera automatically standardise to it. Maybe one day ...!

You can set the Picture Style (again, this does not affect the image data in the RAW file, and can be over-ridden in DPP), and you can create (with Picture Style Editor) and load up your own Picture Styles as well as using built-in ones and those downloadable from the Canon website. Of course, if you are shooting JPEGs you need to get all this right when shooting since post-processing of JPEGs is not a clever idea.

Try changing from AdobeRGB to sRGB and use Standard Picture Style and see if that brightens things up a bit.