Any regret setting your camera color profile to Adobe RGB vs. regular RGB?

[net1994]

I just got my Nikon Z8 and set the color profile to Adobe RGB. I won't be printing at home. My previous Nikon D800 I set the camera to shoot in Adobe RGB color profile. It was great on my computer monitor. Printing on my home Canon printer (I had at the time) the aRGB colors were pretty close to on-screen, though not 100%. But online browsers or apps don't use Adobe RGB and so I see slight color shifts of my images. Did any of you change your color profile in camera from aRGB to regular RGB?

 

[ishwanu]

It only matters if you're shooting JPEGs - then yes, colors will be incorrect if the viewing environment doesn't support the color space you choose. If it is supported, no problem.

Shoot RAW and you can make the decision later - or export to both color spaces.

 

[net1994]

I shoot RAW only. I was curious if anyone later found setting it to aRGB a hassle/PITA because most folks won't see those nuances of Adobe RGB when they look at pics in apps or websites.

 

[MasterOfGoingFaster]

I shoot RAW only. I was curious if anyone later found setting it to aRGB a hassle/PITA because most folks won't see those nuances of Adobe RGB when they look at pics in apps or websites.

They will not. Because the aRGB/sRGB is only applied to JPGs. The raw file is not affected. The raw file contains a JPG for preview and it will be affected. But when you load the raw file into Lightroom, it only shows the preview for a few seconds, then renders the raw file and shows the results of LR's rendering - which will not be affected by your aRGB/sRGB setting.

 

[ishwanu]

I shoot RAW only.

You said '... I set the camera to shoot in Adobe RGB color profile.' So I said it doesn't matter how you set it in the camera if you shoot RAW.

I was curious if anyone later found setting it to aRGB a hassle/PITA because most folks won't see those nuances of Adobe RGB when they look at pics in apps or websites.

I personally never publish or share photos in anything other than sRGB.

 

[Wazza Rabbithole]

I always record in RAW, so camera color space is irrelevant. With my editing software I use the widest Gamut available. For DxO PhotoLab it is DxO Wide Gamut. When printing to a jpg file I use ICC profile sRGB_v4_ICC_preference_display. I find it has slightly richer colors. When printing I use an ICC profile optimized for the printer make and model.

I hope this helps you

Cheers Wazza therabbitholephotography.com

 

[Leonard Shepherd]

Adobe RGB contains handles more shades of green than sRGB – important in a country like the UK where there is much green foliage.

It is best to set your export program for small files for web use et cetera to sRGB.

This setting only has to be done once and takes about five seconds in most PP programs.

 

[Kaj E]

The only difference it makes when you shoot raw is that the histogram on the camera is more useful when you set the camera to AdobeRGB. With sRGB you will see blown channels when the in reality is none. AdobeRGB with the wider gamut is therefore more useful when determining exposure based on the histogram.

The best alternative short of shooting UniWB is to use Adobe RGB and calibrate your camera, using for instance RawDigger, so you know how much headroom you have left after the camera histogram shows saturation.

 

[sirhawkeye64]

I shoot RAW only. I was curious if anyone later found setting it to aRGB a hassle/PITA because most folks won't see those nuances of Adobe RGB when they look at pics in apps or websites.

They will not. Because the aRGB/sRGB is only applied to JPGs. The raw file is not affected. The raw file contains a JPG for preview and it will be affected. But when you load the raw file into Lightroom, it only shows the preview for a few seconds, then renders the raw file and shows the results of LR's rendering - which will not be affected by your aRGB/sRGB setting.

But isn't your histogram affected by the embedded JPEG, so couldn't this affect the histogram (slightly) in some ways?

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[Kaj E]

Adobe RGB contains handles more shades of green than sRGB – important in a country like the UK where there is much green foliage.

It is best to set your export program for small files for web use et cetera to sRGB.

This setting only has to be done once and takes about five seconds in most PP programs.

Wide gamut monitors are becoming more and more common (particularly among people interested in photography) and all widely used browsers are nowadays color managed, so there is no need to post in sRGB anymore. I post generally in display P3 which is very good i reds and yellow. I use AdobeRGB for images for prominent greens. I also watch the histogram in these cases before posting.

You can see here what people with wide gamut monitors miss with images posted i sRGB: https://webkit.org/blog-files/color-gamut/

Kind regards
Kaj

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