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Hey,

I just realised that my 1000D is not recording the chosen colour profile in the metadata! Is that normal???

I have the colour profile set to sRGB on the camera and I thought that the colour profile was supposed to be automatically tagged to the image so that when you open up your image editor it can read the profile (and if your working space is different to the image space then convert it to the working space) and display your image correctly. There is a line in the raw data that is <photoshop:ICCProfile/> but as you can see it contains no colour profile. Also I suspect this line was injected by photoshop for obvious reasons.

I see my firmware hasn't been updated since I bought it so i'm going to do that and see if it helps. I can't find a download for the EOS Utility though. Is there one out there? I can't see one on the canon website at all! If you know where it is I would be very greatful for a link!

Surely Raw Format Schema must allow colour profile information to be recorded in metadata...
so why would canon not put it in??
 
If shooting JPEG then yes, it sounds like there's a problem - but I think if shooting RAW, then the file simply opens up in whatever colour-space your editing platform is set to...

You were shooting in...?
 
No, I get what you're saying: I'm just not so sure that's the case with RAW as it collects all the data...regardless of your camera pre-sets.

Therefore, unless your editor applies those in-camera settings to your previews, it would look the same, because it is the same.

Try shooting again in JPEG and see if it's still doing it - then you'll know for sure.
 
I didnt think raw files had a colour space given to them. I thought this only happened on conversion?

This is where raw gains another advantage. The raw file has not had a color space assigned to it. Rather, this generally occurs at the time of the conversion. Thus, shooting in raw provides color space flexibility. The photographer can choose the color space that best matches the color space of the device that will be used to present the image. This is especially advantageous when the photograph will be used with more than one output device. In this case, the photographer can perform a separate conversion for each application, individually selecting the color space for each use.
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http://www.ronbigelow.com/articles/raw3/raw3.htm
 
BrownWarrior said:
If the RAW files open in whatever colour space you are working in (say Adobe RGB), and one was shot in sRGB and one in Adobe RGB then they should be distinctly differnt. The sRGB one should look very wrong because the computer is thinking it is Adobe RGB when it isn't.
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If in raw format then no, they will not look different. The sRGB/AdobeRBG setting is only for the jpg engine. The whole idea of raw is that it is exactly that - raw data. No (or in some cases very little; certain noise filtering for e.g) in-camera processing has been applied.
 
75 posts and he gets a new under-title - that's pretty good going...
 
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