----- Original Message ----- From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "EOS list" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 9:06 PM Subject: EOS POLL - RAW or JPEG
> Right, time for a poll. > Do you shoot RAW or jpeg, and why? > > I'll start. I shoot jpeg. The reason I shoot jpegs is simple. I shot the > same scene RAW and large/fine jpeg. I put both through PS and printed > each at A3. I compared the prints and there was not a damn bit of > difference between them. My end result is printing, so that was that. > > I'm aware of the extra 'latitude' that RAW has to offer, but for the > sort of stuff I shoot, I'm not fussed. I pay a bit more attention to > exposure, and bracket where necessary. The 1DmII is spectacularly > accurate a good 90% of the time. Speaking of which, I don't have buckets > of time to sit processing image files and I don't do batch work. I zip > through my 'contacts' in the PS file browser on a Mac and pick out the > ones I want, apply some curves and save as PSD's. Resized and sharpened, > a few pop out the S9000 and are mounted on friends walls. > Flame away ;-) > Cheers, > Cotty Hi Cotty, I guess I'm with you 100%. I've had a 10D for nearly 3 years, and a 5D for around 4-5 weeks. I've been taking photos since 1954, so I think I've learnt a bit about how to deal with cameras not exposing correctly all the time! (My EOS3 was one of those which under-exposed by default - it's now OK. Since getting the 10D, I could afford the time to let Canon have it for 3 weeks and sort it out.) I too print to A3, and the only print showing jaggies is one which I shot in RAW! But then jaggies aren't jpeg artefacts. I think the main trick is not to save to jpeg, open and modify and save again to jpeg etc. I use Chris Breeze's BreezeBrowser (latest version) and Downloader Pro - 2 great applications with useful batch processing if needed. I do shoot to RAW if I'm doing test shots or architecture, but certainly not for my everyday usage. [On the 5D my EF20f2.8 has serious vignetting at f2.8, acceptable at f4. Strangely, my old Sigma 17-35 f2.8-4 EX HSM is OK at 17 and f2.8. Other Canon fixed WA primes seem OK at their full aperture of f2.8.] Cheers. Malcolm Milton Keynes, UK http://www.megalith.freeserve.co.uk/oddimage.htm * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
