On Thu, 13 Sep 2007, John Allsopp wrote: > Jan Tomasek wrote: > > Shooting in RAW is just same as into JPEG on Nikon, saving to memory > > card is done in background, but because of bigger size of file camera's > > buffer is able to hold only 2-3 images and after that you have to wait. > > Just to clarify that: the similarity is in the file saving, otherwise > saving to RAW still saves more info, right? > > It's just, I haven't got Gimp to do RAW yet (but I will, now you've > pointed out the plugin below). I won't bother if there's no difference > in the file quality. > > > Gimp have limitation on 8bit per color channel, that is shame because > > cameras are usualy producing 12bit. Other software like Adobe > > Photohoshop is able to work in 16bit, but that adds another expences to > > your hobby. > > I'm sure I read there is a professional version of The Gimp which > provides more bits. I don't know how that compares price-wise with > Photoshop.
You might want to have a look at digiKam http://www.digikam.org/ (also open source). It does 16 Bit (and a lot of other nice stuff;-). Arnd _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
