Color space Adobe or not

[habed]

Recently I attended to a Webinar dedicated to the canon 60D and the presenter mentioned that in order to get better color results the color space should be on Adobe RGB, so I did.

I shoot in RAW so the first thing I noticed was that the names of the files started with an underscore intead of the letter I (_MG0018) But when I edit those photos and convert them to JPEG the file name doesn't change (Except, of course for the extension) but the color space is converted to sRGB

I've been googling adobe SRGB vs sRGB and found lots of pages with splited opinions and I'm more confused now than before.

I'm a wedding photog, shoot in RAW and deliver a photobook and a DVD with the photos. Almost never print anything, less in high formats.

So........In plain english please, abobe RGB or sRGB???? and why???

Gracias!!!

[jdepould]

Shoot Adobe, but when you upload to the web it has to be sRGB. Consult your printer for what they want.

[fire-eyes]

The whole color profiles topic is pretty zany. You can drive yourself totally bonkers trying to figure it out.

In most cases, unless you know otherwise:

1) Shoot aRGB
2) When you are saving your final result file, as the very last step, go to sRGB

[Krusty79]

aRGB is a larger color space with more colors than RGB. Most printers cannot print all the colors in aRGB, so that's why it's better to convert to RGB before printing. When I worked at a digital printing company, they wanted files with the RGB colorspace.

[ravncat]

If you are shooting in raw - you`re using whatever colorspace your converter is working in. The choice of color space on camera is applied to jpgs. I tend to work in prophotorgb. As the above posters state- the sRGB colorspace is usually the native space for hardware (such as monitors and tv`s) and it is what you should be using on the net.

[habed]

Thank you for your responses.

I guess I'll keep on shooting aRGB in RAW and then convert them to sRGB as JPEGS