Q's about settings for photography (pic profile on, or turn it off?)

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So I've been playing around with my a7s for photography, and I took a bunch of pictures (in raw of course!) without realizing that I had a picture profile turned on.

I had Kholi's 2nd custom profile selected. The picture effect option was turned off.

The images turned out great and very natural (in my opinion) right out of the camera - I only had to adjust the highlights down a little and add some noise reduction. Normally I would be playing with white balance, saturation, yada yada.

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This got me wondering - what are you folks using in terms of settings for photos? I'm coming from a 5D mark iii, where I used a custom flat profile. In the a7s, would the equivalent be turning everything completely off?

Thanks
 
With the A6000 I started doing the same thing, using a flat profile for stills as well.
Turns out that I find the default A6000 profile so much pleasant already that going the flat way it's just an extra step. Of course shooting raw the flat profile is not an issue, but at this point I'm just leaving the default profile for stills and I'm good to go :)
 
Wait. Are you saying you see the picture profile in the raw still images?
This can't be possible as the whole point of the raw image is to not have any profile baked in.

Also, Picture profiles should only work for video. For stills, the analog of Canon's picture style in Sony cameras are the "creative styles". You can also apply the active creative style to video by selecting "PP off".
 
cpc said:
Wait. Are you saying you see the picture profile in the raw still images?
This can't be possible as the whole point of the raw image is to not have any profile baked in.
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Actually it is possible and it might be even useful.
To open a raw image keeping the PP it has been shot with, you might want to use Canon DPP for Canon cameras. It sill opens the image in raw format, but applies the PP that's been used.

For Sony I'm not sure, perhaps the equivalent of DPP? I don't remember right now what's called... but this needs to be double checked.
I'm still able to view my A6000 raw images with the creative style used though by using Diffractor, that by the way is really fast and very useful.
 
dsp_418 said:
Actually it is possible and it might be even useful.
To open a raw image keeping the PP it has been shot with, you might want to use Canon DPP for Canon cameras. It sill opens the image in raw format, but applies the PP that's been used.

For Sony I'm not sure, perhaps the equivalent of DPP? I don't remember right now what's called... but this needs to be double checked.
I'm still able to view my A6000 raw images with the creative style used though by using Diffractor, that by the way is really fast and very useful.
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Yeah, this makes sense. I've been doing it with DPP occasionally. Lightroom also emulates some of the camera native creative/picture styles if you explicitly tell it to do so, but it is really just an Adobe emulation. Diffractor does an emulation too?
 
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