----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Good" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2005 4:00 PM Subject: FW: EOS POLL - RAW or JPEG
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Skip
".. there's just so little point in the extra step
in workflow to convert from RAW to JPEG. .."
Skip Middleton http://www.shadowcatcherimagery.com
I don't understand that bit. Why do people assume it has to be converted to jpg ? You can print raw straight to the printer so why convert at all ? When I produce my web stuff I do that in the browser in CS2 so it converts to small jpgs obviously but all my other processing is done in raw and saved as psd's if I think it's necessary. So the only downside is size - and disk is (relatively) cheap these days.
Because we're not just printing ourselves, we're sending files out to be printed by outside labs. That requires a JPEG, not a RAW or TIFF file (have you checked the size of a TIFF from a 5D RAW?) and thus, the extra step. Also, we're occasionally selling the "digital negatives" to clients, those are JPEGs, too, since saving them as PS or TIFF files would require multiple DVDs. In fact, we rarely print anything on our inkjet printers, clients have (ill-founded or not) concerns about the archival quality of prints from inkjets, especially Canon. And, frankly, it costs less to have a lab print anything under 12x18, and we can't print anything larger than that...
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