As digital photography has evolved, so have the shooting demands on professional photographers. Colour adjustments need to be made depending on whether one is shooting for pre-press, print or for the web; and a flexible colour management system such as the E-1 SLR's provides just the tools necessary to make them accurately and easily.

Colour Space is defined as the range of colours, with RGB (Red, Green, Blue) representing the visible spectrum of colours. This colour space can be further divided into colour spaces seen by a device, such as a digital camera, printer, computer monitor and the Internet.

The most often talked about colour spaces are sRGB, Adobe RGB, and CMYK. RGB colours are emitted colours seen on televisions, computer monitors, captured by scanners and digital cameras.

CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black are most often referred to as reflective colour and used in printing such as dye-sublimation, inkjet and press printers, and is a smaller colour space than the full RGB colour space. To make home printing easier, many home photo printers and computer monitors use the sRGB space, synchronising each unit's colours for acceptable results easily.

The E-1 allows the user to select their choice of image capture using sRGB or Adobe RGB colour spaces. sRGB is the colour space standard for computer monitors, inkjet printers, scanners, and the Internet, and is used in most digital cameras on the market today. Adobe RGB offers the colour space which is suitable to pre-press and printing on CMYK printers. This choice can easily be made using the camera's Main Menu so you can quickly optimise the colour performance of the camera depending on the medium you're shooting for.

The E-1 also provides 5 colour saturation adjustment modes - ranging from Accurate CS 0 to saturated showy colours CS 4 - and 4 memory colour adjustment modes for specific colour emphasis - including Apple Red, Spring Green, Blue Sky and Soft Red (for Euro Asian skin tones). So no matter what subject you shoot, you'll have the freedom to colour your world as you see fit.