What Monitor do you use?

[Daniel Browning]

not so then.

Right. Wide gamut can be done with non-IPS panels too.

Is it pointless to shoot in Adobe RGB (1998) if my current monitor will not display that wide of a gamut?

No, because some of those colors can still come out in a print, depending on the printer. (Some colors can only be seen in the display, others can only be seen in the print, and many can be seen in both).

Then again, does it make sense to keep shooting in Adobe RGB since the printing outlet I use informed me that they can print in what ever colorspace the digital file was shot in?

Yes, if you shoot JPEG for print, and the printer supports it like yours does, then it makes sense to use AdobeRGB to have a slightly wider palette to work with.


Personally, I prefer to shoot raw, so the color space setting doesn't do anything (it's just metadata, like white balance), and then convert to whatever color space I want in the raw converter.