wsa111 Loc: Goose Creek, South Carolina

You have two choices sRGB & Adobe RGB.
The manual says the Adobe RGB has a wider range of colors than the sRGB.
I have an epson printer which will handle the Adobe choice, but a local photo shop says they can get better results with the sRGB selection???
Need help on the correct choice.

Photographer Jim Loc: Rio Vista, CA

I'd go with the Adobe RGB. You can print it, so go with the larger color gamut. You can always assign sRGB and adjust for out of gamut color if you need to send images out to a lab that requires it.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

Shoot in AdobeRGB and if you take your images to a lab for printing you can convert to sRGB.

charles brown Loc: Tennesse

I too have an epson printer and do all my shooting using Adobe RGB. Have the printer calibrated for RGB (I think - not always sure what I have done). It is my understanding that most pros use Adobe RGB, but yet the magazines want their submissions in sRGB, at least that is what I have been told. Always puzzled me as to why this is. Just another mystery of life, I guess.

Photographer Jim Loc: Rio Vista, CA

Most desktop inkjet printers, and many wide format inkjet printers, are optimized to print the aRGB color space. If you are a pro who uses such a printer to make your own prints, shooting in aRGB is to your advantage. Most labs and commercial printers that use light to expose photo paper are meant to use sRGB. Because Adobe RGB gamut is larger, the sRGB machine will take the "out of gamut" colors and substitute a color that fits within the sRGB space. That often results in the final image reproducing with "flattened" color. So, it is generally better to send labs a file already in sRGB. Internet publishing also requires sRGB files for best display.

I'm puzzled by the comment that most magazines want sRGB files. Magazines use mechanical printers which require converting to CMYK. My understanding is that it is better to convert to CMYK from Adobe RGB, but not being in the publishing business that may be my error.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

This was covered in a class on the D600 from CreativeLive I saw yesterday. Unfortunately, since I had also bought the video, I wasn't paying much attention to it. From what I recall, the guy said you can use sRGB for most shooting, but if you're...???, then use RGB. He added that there is so little difference that it would be hard to tell them apart.

From page 274 of the D800 manual, :The color space determines the gamut of colors available for color
reproduction. Choose sRGB for photographs that will be printed
or used “as is,” with no further modification. Adobe RGB has a
wider color gamut and is recommended for images that will be
extensively processed or retouched after leaving the camera."

I have no personal experience with this. Just passing along some info.

warrior Loc: Paso Robles CA

The videos are up and running 0631 hrs. Pacific

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

This link shows it starting at 9:00 AM Pacific Time. Or maybe that's when it was broadcast originally.

http://www.creativelive.com/courses/nikon-d600-dslr-fast-start-john-greengo

rollop Loc: little rock, arkansas

Jeff Revell has a section in his book on the D800, it's on page 13. He states that sRGB was developed by Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft to define colors for the internet and it has something to do with the way computer monitors display images using red,green and blue (RGB), since there are no black pixels in a monitor, sRGB uses these three colors to display all the colors of an image.
Adobe RGB was developed in 1998 as a way to enable a wider range of colors by using cyan,magenta,yellow and black (CMYK) to intepret the primary colors: red, green and blue. This produces better looking prints because of the wider color palette.

Weaselsplace Loc: Ider, AL

Jerryc41, Do you think the video is worth $49?

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

If I hadn't bought it for $29, I would have paid $49. It's roughly five hours of detailed instruction on the D600. In the beginning, he spends a few minutes on photography and camera use in general, but it's loaded with D600 info. In addition, you get seven pages of PDF info about settings -charts, etc.

For me, $49 would be worth it. You download it in seven sections, so you have it immediately, and you can save it to a DVD and use it on other computers.

Go to their site and see if John Greengro is doing other classes. If so, you can watch for free while they are on and decide if that type of presentation is what you want.

http://johngreengo.com/