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Hi all I need some help in changing the working colour space of my new M in the image menu colour space sub menue is greyed out and I can't access it so it must be locked but I do not know where to unlock the manual does not help in this regard

cheers Keith

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If you are using .dng the colour space is determined when you process the image in Adobe Camera Raw (or whatever). It is only JPEG that needs the in-camera colour space setting, so set it to JPEG and it will be available in the menu.

 

 

Steve

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If you use Lightroom you are using Prophoto by default. In other editing programs I would advise Adobe RGB. Although Prophoto is wider, you may have some minor issues in reproducing colour as even quality monitors cannot render it.

Note that once you have converted to a lesser colourspace it is useless to convert up again, as the out of gamut colours will have been lost.

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There is an argument in some quarters for using Adobe RGB until the printing industry and monitors have caught up and can reproduce a full ProPhoto gamut. It means that at every stage what you see is what you get, rather than having a tiny amount of unseen and un-reproducible colour information floating about in the ether. In the future if it ever became vital that the small amount of lost colour was going to make a big difference to the image the .dng would need processing again in ProPhoto as and when technology allows you to see the results.

 

Steve

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But do you use it as a working colour space or do you convert when finished, Wilson ?(imho the latter is the better workflow)

 

Jaap,

 

I can detect no difference between working in Prophoto and then exporting to the slightly narrower ECI, to using ECI as my workspace, using C1 V.7 pro. I was hoping to have my study/digital darkroom back from being used as my grandson's bedroom by the time I got back to the UK in October. However now that my daughter and son in law have given up trying to find a replacement house they like, after the first one fell though and are going to build a new house themselves, it will probably be 18 months before I get it back. Meanwhile my new Canon 12 colour Pixma Pro 1, which apparently has the widest gamut in the market, is sitting unopened in its delivery box. I have not therefore been able to experiment.

 

It was the agency print people I have been using (Marrutt UK), who requested I send them images in ECI-RGB V2 colourspace, from which they do the CMYK conversion with an Epson RIP engine.

 

Wilson

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