<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Sans Serif'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Hi Francesco,<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I have also an EOS450D and use digiKam 0.10.0 from openSuSE 11.1 RPM repo. I did the same as you with filemon to discover which camera profile is used by Canon software. I configured my camera to use AdobeRGB color space instead of sRGB.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>I found that using <span style=" font-weight:600;">la.icc</span> (Landscape AdobeRGB) or <span style=" font-weight:600;">sa.icc</span> (Standard AdobeRGB) gives quite good results. These profiles can be found (at least in my Window$ box) under the folder<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>C:\Program Files\Canon\Digital Photo Professional\icc<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>There are in fact a pair of ICC profiles, one for sRGB color space and one for AdobeRGB color space, for each picture style available<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Faithful: fs.icc, fa.icc<br>
Landscape: ls.icc, la.icc<br>
Neutral: ns.icc, na.icc<br>
Standard: ss.icc, sa.icc<br>
Portrait: ps.icc, pa.icc<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>See the attached screen captures of my color management and RAW decoding settings. I checked also "Use Raw Import Tool to handle Raw image" on the Edit settings tab.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>It is important to try to "calibrate" the monitor's black point, white point, and gamma, at least "eyeball" if you (like me) don't have a spectrophotometer. I used for this purpose the excellent tutorials and charts written by Norman Koren at<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>http://www.normankoren.com/makingfineprints1A.html<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Hope all this helps :-)<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>Best regards<br>
Francisco</p></body></html>