Finally after months of experimenting with settings, color profiles, photo management and manipulation software (including, of course, Adobe Camera Raw as well as Phase Capture ONE Pro) I realized all of this is unnecessary.

Shoot in RAW. Then use Canon’s Digital Photo Professional to tweak the photos. It works non destructively (just like Aperture) and saves all the Raw manipulations in Canon’s CR2 Raw files. When done, export these tweaked and perfect RAW Photos into JPEGs and import into iPhoto for nice previews, slide-show and fast photo management anyway.. Then import the CR2 Raw files, which served as the basis for those JPEGs you just exported out of DPP.

This way you have all in iPhoto, the Raw files which you can still tweak and change in DPP at a later date and the JPEG reviews for slideshows, CDs, websites, whatever…

So easy. So cheap. Just a little open-mindedness and good will.