07-10-2010, 02:26 PM
[quote name='adifrank' date='10 July 2010 - 01:56 PM' timestamp='1278762993' post='937']
Hi. Got my first DSLR camera - the 5D mark ii - about a week ago. While reading through the manual and learning about it, some questions came up. I was hoping that maybe someone here who is familiar with the camera might be able to help me better understand a few things.
My questions:
1. PICTURE STYLE - I'm not sure what to make of the Picture Style options that the camera has. My instinct tells me that I should just set it to the most neutral and flat setting, leaving all processing to Photoshop, or other post software. So is my gut feeling correct? or am I overlooking a great and useful feature of the 5D mark ii? Assuming the former, I'm a bit confused as to which Picture Style setting would give me the most neutral image to work with - Standard? Neutral? or Faithful?
2. COLOR SPACE - I'm assuming that the choice of selecting sRGB or Adobe RGB is for jpeg files only. Correct? So if I am recording both RAW and JPG, the RAW file will not be affected in any way by my selection in the camera menu between sRGB and Adobe RGB. Am I right here?
3. AF MODES - I understand the difference in functionality between One-Shot AF, AI Focus AF and AI Servo AF. Yet, since AI Servo seems to cover both other two options - in what case would someone choose to select an AF mode other than AI Servo? I'm sure there is a reason for the other two options, I just can't think of it. Even for someone like myself who normally photographs objects which are not moving - is there a downside I am overlooking to have my camera always set to AI Servo?
These are my questions (so far...). I'd really appreciate your explanations and advice. Thanks in advance.
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Some complements :
1-As other mentioned, it's a metadata used by Canon DPP to apply its curve & toning. But, in the event you would like them, even though Lightroom and pretty much every other software will ignore Picture Styles, Adobe has developed camera profiles for Lightroom to mimic Canon 5 standard picture styles. I haven't shot Canon in a while but in early Lightroom stages (early... up to 2.x !) , these profiles came as a relief as Lightroom & ACR were pretty much unable to render the reds correctly (at least subjectively to me). IMHO, they were absolutely necessary. Not sure if ACR engine has evolved and if you still need these profiles.
That's an illustration of a possible trade-off one can encounter when using third-party RAW engines.
2-My intuition is that it's also a RAW parameter this time, something to check. AdobeRGB colour space needs to be carefully approached in a calibrated environment and represents a lot of efforts for a comparatively low gain, in my limited experience.
3-If shooting still subjects, I would rather use Single AF than Servo. Servo expects your subject to be in movement and is based on predictive algorithms as to allow proper tracking of depth changes of your subject (wrt. focus plane). In practice, you'll notice when aiming at a static subject that the smallest movement will have the camera change its focus over and over again. I don't know how well it works with the current state of technology but on a 40D, this instability was already great enough to fail a lot of shots. I hear the 5D mkII hasn't evolved much since 5D mk I so I would avoid it too. Wim, I'm sure, will add details later <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />
Greetings,
S.
Hi. Got my first DSLR camera - the 5D mark ii - about a week ago. While reading through the manual and learning about it, some questions came up. I was hoping that maybe someone here who is familiar with the camera might be able to help me better understand a few things.
My questions:
1. PICTURE STYLE - I'm not sure what to make of the Picture Style options that the camera has. My instinct tells me that I should just set it to the most neutral and flat setting, leaving all processing to Photoshop, or other post software. So is my gut feeling correct? or am I overlooking a great and useful feature of the 5D mark ii? Assuming the former, I'm a bit confused as to which Picture Style setting would give me the most neutral image to work with - Standard? Neutral? or Faithful?
2. COLOR SPACE - I'm assuming that the choice of selecting sRGB or Adobe RGB is for jpeg files only. Correct? So if I am recording both RAW and JPG, the RAW file will not be affected in any way by my selection in the camera menu between sRGB and Adobe RGB. Am I right here?
3. AF MODES - I understand the difference in functionality between One-Shot AF, AI Focus AF and AI Servo AF. Yet, since AI Servo seems to cover both other two options - in what case would someone choose to select an AF mode other than AI Servo? I'm sure there is a reason for the other two options, I just can't think of it. Even for someone like myself who normally photographs objects which are not moving - is there a downside I am overlooking to have my camera always set to AI Servo?
These are my questions (so far...). I'd really appreciate your explanations and advice. Thanks in advance.
Maybe more questions coming later... <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />[/quote]
Some complements :
1-As other mentioned, it's a metadata used by Canon DPP to apply its curve & toning. But, in the event you would like them, even though Lightroom and pretty much every other software will ignore Picture Styles, Adobe has developed camera profiles for Lightroom to mimic Canon 5 standard picture styles. I haven't shot Canon in a while but in early Lightroom stages (early... up to 2.x !) , these profiles came as a relief as Lightroom & ACR were pretty much unable to render the reds correctly (at least subjectively to me). IMHO, they were absolutely necessary. Not sure if ACR engine has evolved and if you still need these profiles.
That's an illustration of a possible trade-off one can encounter when using third-party RAW engines.
2-My intuition is that it's also a RAW parameter this time, something to check. AdobeRGB colour space needs to be carefully approached in a calibrated environment and represents a lot of efforts for a comparatively low gain, in my limited experience.
3-If shooting still subjects, I would rather use Single AF than Servo. Servo expects your subject to be in movement and is based on predictive algorithms as to allow proper tracking of depth changes of your subject (wrt. focus plane). In practice, you'll notice when aiming at a static subject that the smallest movement will have the camera change its focus over and over again. I don't know how well it works with the current state of technology but on a 40D, this instability was already great enough to fail a lot of shots. I hear the 5D mkII hasn't evolved much since 5D mk I so I would avoid it too. Wim, I'm sure, will add details later <img src='http://forum.photozone.de/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> Greetings,
S.