M9 Color Management

[M9BHoop]

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Hi,

 

I recently got my hands on an M9 and have been enjoying playing around with it for the past few hours. However, I've noticed in the menu setting that the following options are grayed out w/ the following settings.

 

Sharpening - Standard

Color Saturation- Standard

Contrast- Standard

Color Management - sRGB

 

Why does this occur? I would love incorporate the M9 into my work flow. However, I would like to know how to set the color space to Adobe RGB and unlock the other options.

 

Additionally, I'm shooting in dng uncompressed.

 

Thanks.

Edited May 28, 2010 by M9BHoop

[tdtaylor]

When the file type is .dng (raw), the sharpening, saturation, etc. are handed in post processing. Select .jpg, the processing occurs in camera, and these functions will be available. Other can give the more complicated explanation, but it is rather simple.

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[adli]

If you want to continue to shoot raw, you have to set color space in your raw converter.

[stunsworth]

You set the colour space in your raw converter not the camera. With a DNG file the concept of colour space is meaningless from the camera's point of view.

[arthury]

Didn't we all got a jolt of surprise when we saw it happening to our beloved M8 3 years ago?

[jaapv]

Not really - it is completely logical.

[Stan Raucher]

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It would be nice, however, to be able to set the color saturation to "black + white" when shooting DNG only in order to get a B&W preview in the embedded jpg without effecting the raw file. I hate shooting DNG + jpg (and then throwing out the jpgs) just to get the B&W preview.

 

Let's hope that's included in the next firmware.

 

Stan

[gib_robinson]

Not really - it is completely logical.

 

And would we want it any other way? RAW means RAW. No in-camera manipulation.

[marknorton]

I would much prefer that these extraneous entries for JPEG were removed when you select DNG only (as you should to maximinse battery life) to create an even simpler camera. As they say in Frimley, "What the eye can't see, the heart won't grieve over".

[stunsworth]

I would much prefer that these extraneous entries for JPEG were removed when you select DNG only

 

I agree, but then there'd be people asking where the menu options had disappeared to.

[mjh]

I agree, but then there'd be people asking where the menu options had disappeared to.

Conventional wisdom in user interface design mandates that menus should be consistent; when a menu item or option is unavailable in some situation it should still be displayed, but greyed-out. For example, Apple has required this behaviour in its Human Interface Guidelines since the early days of the Macintosh.