Color Space - Samsung NX5 User Manual

Brightness and color adjustment of picture

Color space

You can set the color space the camera uses.
1
Press [MENU] in the shooting mode.
2
Select Shooting 1 (
→ an option.
sRGB
RGB
71
Adobe RGB
RGB
) → Color Space
1
Set the color space to sRGB.
Set the color space to Adobe RGB.
• When you set the color space to Adobe RGB, the
camera saves picture files in the "_SAMXXXX.JPG"
format.
• You can set the Color Space function directly by
pressing [Fn] in the Shooting mode.
What is color space?
The image In/Output devices such as digital
camera, monitor and printer hold different ranges of
reproducing each color.
The possible range of color reproduction is referred to
as color space. Several standards of color space are
fixed for each device. This camera support sRGB and
Adobe RGB. sRGB is diversely used in the devices
like computer. It is recommended to use sRGB for
regular images. sRGB standards for International
standard of color space established by the IEC
(International Electrotechnical Commission).
This is defined from color space for PC monitors and
is also used as the standard color space for Exif.
Adobe RGB is the color space recommended by
Adobe Systems, Inc. for commercial printing and
has wider range of color reproduction than sRGB.
Adobe RGB covers most of the color range so colors
only available when printed are not lost when editing
images from a computer. When image is opened by
non-compatible software, the colors look lighter.