This JPEG image was reproduced from such a D30. Image data recorded on a EOS D30 released in 2000 was processed using File Viewer Utility (FVU) at that time. To avoid over-saturated “picture postcard” colours and get true-to-life colours, I use a picture style of Faithful. Picture Style represents the cornerstone of the EOS System image characteristic solution from the past to the future by means of Picture Style files (.pf2 log extension). “Faithful” is equivalent to “Absolute Colorimetric” while “Neutral” is “Relative Colorimetric”. in a sea of business cards and websites all competing for the same clients. The only sense I can make of this is that “Faithful” attempts to render true-to-life colours, while “Neutral” squeezes the gamut of the camera CCD to fit the smaller colour-space of sRGB as used by JPEG.Ĭanon’s “Picture Style” basically addresses the same problem as Rendering Intent. is similar, in that it captures the style and eye of the picture-taker. It is tuned so that subjects photographed in environmental light with a color temperature of about 5,200K will appear colorimetrically true to life. “Faithful” is a Picture Style that closely reproduces the colors you actually see in your subjects. Picture Styles are applied to JPEG (still) and MOV (video) files during exposure.

with sample code available from the Blackmagic Design developer website. Even if a shot is over-saturated in the Standard setting resulting in a mediocre image, this Neutral setting is designed for image correction while retaining the detail. Description QuickGuide to Picture Style Settings and Customization Solution Canon Picture Styles are preset yet adjustable parameters that determine how your EOS DSLR will process and render its images. This new generation of digital film technology ushers in an analog style purity. “Neutral” prioritizes the subject matter, and is prepared on assumption of post-processing. Trying to make sense of “Neutral” and “Faithful”įrom the Canon website ( Canon : Picture Style.)

Canon picture style website