I shoot RAW in Adobe RGB...

...so why does Aperture export to sRGB every time?
This is starting to annoy me, because my entire workflow has been set to use the wider gamut Adobe profile. How can I persuade Aperture to export files to, for example Photoshop, keeping the original colour profile intact throughout the process? Adobe RGB is in the EXIF data, so why does it getted flipped to sRGB?
I've seen other posts about similar problems, but I haven't found answers that address this particular issue. Any ideas?
For the info, Canon RAW, EOS 400D.
Thanks all. Be gentle with my first post here! =o)

You don't shoot RAW in Adobe98. You shoot RAW in RAW.
Setting a colour space for the image in-camera only has an effect on the actual image data when shooting JPEGs - for RAW files it's just a tag telling the conversion software 'process the file to this colour space, pretty please'.
If you want to export to Adobe98 when exporting, simply go into the export presets and change the output profile to Adobe98.
Ian
P.S. Welcome to the forum!

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