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I have just upgraded my 10D (broke it) to a 1D Mark II N (had it a few days), and I’m trying to understand the ‘Picture Style’ parameter settings (sharpness, contrast, saturation, colour tone) and 'Color Space' settings.

I shoot in RAW and I’m comfortable with post-processing images (happy to learn). Should I choose Neutral or Faithful Picture Styles (not sure of the difference between the two as all parameters are set to zero) and use Photoshop to influence the sharpness, saturation, etc, or should I choose one of the other styles and include some in-camera sharpening, etc?

What Colour Space should I use? If I intend to process my images on Photoshop, should I use Adobe RGB (the manual recommends sRGB)? With the 10D, I also had a choice of influencing the parameters, but if I chose Adobe RGB, all the parameter settings would revert to standard, presumably assuming that I’d want to add sharpness, saturation, etc, after the event. I used sRGB, but without fully understanding why.

With my new camera, according to page 53 of the manual, the RAW image is affected by the parameter settings, including sharpness. I may have missed something, but I cannot find any mention in the manual of what happens to the parameter settings if I select Adobe RGB, so I’m assuming that the parameter settings will still influence the image if I choose Adobe RGB as the colour space (unlike my 10D)?

What do others do with these settings?