Color management: Understanding color spaces
Cameras, all monitors, and most printers can display only a limited range of colors—this is called the color space. The industry standard space is called sRGB color (Standard, Red, Green, and Blue), but there are many other spaces, such as Adobe RGB (1998) and ProPhoto RGB, to name just two.
Most color spaces correctly claim to encompass a broader range of color than sRGB. While this is certainly true, actually being able to see an increase in the range of colors with one of these wider-ranging spaces, on both a computer screen and in print, is a characteristic that's hard to evaluate because most screens and printers cannot recreate the number of colors captured by the camera regardless of what color space it was recorded in.
Most consumer cameras can only function in the sRGB or Adobe RGB (1998) color spaces.
I think the best practice for amateur photographers is to choose sRGB. This matches the range of colors that...