A raw file keeps all of our options open: We can at any time produce a small jpg for a slide show or sell a giant print from a tiff. Raw files are not massive in size and compare in storage with a full sized 100% jpg.
David On 13-12-02 02:03 PM, junkyardspar...@yepmail.net wrote: > This very closely mirrors my feelings/use case. In fact, I'm increasingly not > even keeping most of my RAW files if I still like the "developed" JPEG a week > later. Before you become horrified, just consider that different people have > different reasons for taking pictures, and don't have to be "serious" > photographers to want to use darktable's excellent RAW developing suite. In > my case, I just want to end up with a better final JPEG than the one I would > be getting out of the camera. While this may be a very foreign use case for > many people using this software, I'd like to think that it's a valid one. :) > > On 2013-12-02 c...@cs.toronto.edu wrote: >> Darktable is the best RAW developer on Linux today (in my opinion and >> I looked at all of the ones that I could find, including commercial >> options). If I had a choice between 'Darktable with DAM' and a program >> that was just as good without DAM, I would be using the latter because >> it is all that I need. But I don't. If I want the best RAW developer on >> Linux, well, it comes with a bunch of DAM features that I don't want and >> I get to work around them as best I can. >> >> I'd like to ask everyone to consider this use-case too. I think it >> speaks well for Darktable that it is the best RAW developer for Linux, >> not just 'a RAW developer with DAM'. But it does mean that there are >> people who are just going to be interested in the RAW developer side of >> it. >> >> (One of the many reasons that I'm not interested in Darktable's DAM is >> that I have already migrated from one RAW developer to Darktable. I have >> no particular guarantees that I won't be making a similar migration >> in the future and accordingly I very much don't want all of my asset >> management locked up inside a program that I may have to abandon in the >> future. Today I do asset management through the filesystem because I am >> pretty sure that anything will be able to deal with that, one way or >> another. In fact the RAW developer that I migrated away from had its own >> DAM, which I also didn't use. That turned out to be a really good thing >> in the end.) >> >> - cks >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT > organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance > affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your > Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Darktable-users mailing list > Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Darktable-users mailing list Darktable-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/darktable-users
