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 03/30/2009 08:13:44 AM · #1
I am having some issues, well,actually a lot of issues with the colours in my 50D

when changing modes, not much is happeneing;

in Landscape the blues are seared into your eyes
standard a little less, but still bad
portrait is just ugly

i had it on neutral for a while, but when it comes up in Bridge it is great colours, then CS3 I have to dial down the tones.

Is there something I am not doing here that I am meant too?

should i be going into the detais nd dialing down the contrast, saturation and colour tone.

IF I am meant to be doing this, would this throw off my WB?

Does anyone else have this problem and or have sorted out a mixture that works for them?

03/30/2009 08:57:55 AM · #2
If you're shooting RAW it's probably in ACR where the issue is. ACR applies defaults automatically.

If you're shooting jpeg then it's the camera settings that could be the culprit.
 03/30/2009 09:18:07 AM · #3
i am shooting RAW all the time

so if it is RAW those setting do not apply?

03/30/2009 09:23:37 AM · #4
Originally posted by JulietNN:
so if it is RAW those setting do not apply?

Not really. Shoot a couple in RAW + JPEG and you'll see the difference.
 03/30/2009 09:39:42 AM · #5
going to go off and shoot something today and see.

I just reset the camera back to original settings and it does seem a little faster than it was.
 03/30/2009 11:49:06 AM · #6
To amplify on Shannon's post:
- When shooting RAW, the LCD display still shows the image with the in-camera settings applied (as if you were shooting JPEG).
- If you process your RAW files with the Canon software (DPP) then the settings will be understood and the results will match JPEG results for the same settings
- If you process your RAW files with ACR, the application does not understand picture styles, and applies some automated "best guesses." You can lock down things like exposure, white balance, etc. to "as shot" and that will help, but as Shannon posted, it won't make the RAWs come out exactly as the JPEGs would have.
What I do is leave the camera set in either Neutral or Faithful so that the LCD dislpay is not over-saturated. I process with Lightroom (same engine as ACR) and I have Lr set to not mess with exposure or WB. I make those choices myself during processing.
 03/30/2009 12:05:56 PM · #7
Juliet,

First, like others said too, picture styles and white balance settings dont apply to RAW files that are saved on the card. They are to be used when RAW files are being developed later on.

Second, not directly related, but it was hard for me to get the desired colors from 40d/50d RAW images by tweaking the available white balance values (presets and temperature) and the picture styles. If you find that a hiccup, you may be interested in reading here and here. Please PM me if you need the picture-style and lightroom templates mentioned in those blogs, I will share them.

Good luck!

03/30/2009 12:44:38 PM · #8
Brilliant thank you guys.

I think my problem would be (maybe this)

I am downloading the images and they go straight into Pictures and directly into Bridge. Then I open in CS3. The problem now I have thought about it a bit more, is maybe not so much to do with the camera, as the pictures look great in Bridge, then go crazy in CS3.

I had hte same sort of problem going from the XTI to 50D into Photomatix. Wouldn't let me do it, the settings where all different, had to do tons of letters to the fixers till they realized there was a bug with the new one as it did not support the new 50d.

So on refection, I think I am throwing myself a loop in my CS3 (I think)

03/30/2009 04:43:05 PM · #9
I do not have it anymore, but I had the same trouble with one of the 50D's I had.
The colors were terrible
I returned mine for other reasons, never really did sort it out.
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