@Zbadger wrote:
Yes - so does anyone know how my camera could be spitting out 2 different prefixs and therefore 2 different color presentations? When I go to the actual files on my screen on the camera, most show Adobe RGB, but for example, one of them with the 8 prefix shows the color represntation to be sRGB. So these 2 differences have been recorded on the compact flash card. This is thus before download to my desktop.
Yes, as mentioned it could be saved in one of your Custom settings (C1, C2, etc.), it would use sRGB if you ever use the Automatic Green Square Mode, and possibly other built in automatic functions like automatic HDR. Until you can correlate what your camera settings were when you didn't get Adobe RGB it is hard to tell. There is a 99.99999% chance there is nothing wrong with your camera.
Why are you using Adobe RGB? You know unless you can ensure Adobe RGB is being used throughout the process (i.e. computer, monitor, printer, etc.) it is likely to introduce color errors. And in the end Adobe RGB will be lost when viewed by anyone else without specialized equipment.
Some excerts from the fStoppers article AdobeRGB vs. sRGB, by Zach Sutton, February 17, 2013
'sRGB came first, and almost everything on a computer is built around sRGB. The internet, video games, applications, personal devices, and most everything else has adapted sRGB as their standard for color space. Even the monitor you’re using likely cannot display all the colors of AdobeRGB. That's right, most traditional computer monitors can only display about 97% of the sRGB color space, and only about 76% of the AdobeRGB color space. Even screen calibrators will often tell you how much of the color gamut you're able to display.'
'Since most web browsers have adapted sRGB as its color space, if you upload an image to the internet with the AdobeRGB gamut, the browser will convert it to sRGB, and it’ll do a terrible job at it, '
'Printers, have began adapting the AdobeRGB color space. This allows for more vibrant colors in your prints, with better color consistency that your own monitor cannot even replicate. But do you want your prints to look differently than they do on your monitor? I say yes, as it provides richer colors that bring out details that would otherwise go unseen.'
Note this is NOT an article against using Adobe RGB, in fact in his conclusion he states he uses Adobe RGB, but, specifically because he mostly shoots for making prints.
It is simply a matter of how each editor handles it but there is one.
