Digital Home Thoughts: sRGB vs. Adobe RGB: Weigh In With Your Opinion

I really appreciated everyone's input on my question about UV filters, so I thought I'd try again with something that's been perplexing me over the past week: the question of whether to shoot in sRGB of Adobe RGB. I've been shooting in sRGB since starting with my first DSLR (I don't even recall if my first digital Canon Rebel had an option for anything else). When I got my Nikon D200, I looked into Adobe RGB, but after reading this Smugmug page, I quickly dismissed it. Lately though, after getting my Nikon D300, I've started to ponder it more - especially after reading an article about getting great prints at home where the author specifically called out the need to use Adobe RGB mode on your camera because of the great colour gamut. When you shoot in RAW you can decide what format to use for the export of the JPEG, sRGB or Adobe RGB (at least in Adobe Lightroom you can).

I did a quick test, and I was surprised how obvious the difference was - the Adobe RGB image was clearly more true to life than the sRGB image. I won't tell you which is which - you'll have to hover over each of the images to see which one is sRGB and which one is Adobe RGB. [photos after the break]