----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I don't know but for me RAW is always the way to go. If it's important > enough for me to pull the trigger, I want to be able to optimize it > without hassling with camera settings. This is even more important in > contrasty lighting, changing light, etc. Under controlled conditions > and lighting when you really need lots of images on a CF, JPG might be > fine. If you can live with a lower quality image. I still can't agree with your conclusion here Jim. If you take the time to ensure correct exposure and have the camera setting set correctly for the conditions the resulting jpg image will most times be more than good enough, particularly for applications like Marc's. His comment on the care needed with settings to shoot slides previously is bang on, and I think we should still maintain the same vigilance to make our images as good as possible straight from the camera. I have shot with several other digital photographers lately whose additude seems to be "don't worry too much - I can fix it later" and I am working hard to maintain my previous attention to detail. I'll fix only what I really have to. I see a problem with allowing yourself to much shooting latitude. I agree that AWB is generally very reliable and often shoot this way. I occassionally get small colour casts (often slightly blue) which are easily adjusted in PS using levels. I only do this when printing enlargements though. For minor lightning or darkening of jpg images I use curves in PS. While I disagree with your generalisation regarding jpg's Jim, I have to say that if I was to go out to shoot a particular animal, sunset, whatever, where I wanted one really outstanding image, I might well shoot raw to give myself more options later. For most other situations jpg will be more than adequate provided care is taken with camera settings. It does not necessarily result in a lower quality image and I can point to many examples of this. I think that the answer to Marc's question is that jpg images will provide the quality he is looking for in reportage work and I would be happy to get together with you here Marc and go through some examples of each so you can judge for yourself. You bring the beer....seriously. nb: disclaimer - I am using the 1Ds and have not seen 10D jpg images so everything I have written could be rubbish. I'll be testing a 10D shortly for possible backup/travel use. Regards, Tim www.timmunro.com.au * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
