sRGB vs AdobeRGB

Digital Cameras have a confusing choice called, "AdobeRGB" or "sRGB" as a 'color gamut'. This gamut is the width of the rainbow of colors, between deep red and violet. AdobeRGB is the widest, however computers and wet-process (ie photo lab) prints cannot see the entire width of the rainbow, leading to dull colors upon output. This is a common misconception and photographers must be aware of this.

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Education

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• Color
• Gamut
• digital
• camera
• settings
• gary
• fong

[JCox31970]

Thanks Mr. Fong. I have a new Canon Rebel XS and I had heard put it on both. After your visual of why to leave it on sRGB, I'm changing it back. I changed to Adobe about 2 hours ago but hadn't taken any pictures yet. Just seems that my pictures aren't coming out crisp and sharp but I also had it on Portrait setting too so I've changed it back to Standard and I've read where I can also us the "FAITHFUL" as well. Any tips?

[Urbanus1234]

So if I edit my photos in Lightroom and have my prints made at a professional print shop then I should be ok?

[menace6699]

The manual for my camera clearly states this. But people are stupid and don't read shit.

QUOTE: "Adobe RGB is for applications or printers that support color management and DCF2.0 option colorspace. Using some applications or printers that do not support them may result in or print images that do not faithfully reproduce the color"