On 23 Nov 2004 at 18:40, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > In "Settings" for Camera RAW in PS there's a setting for Camera Default. > What does that mean? Is that how the camera would have recorded the scene > had no adjustments at all been made? Or is that the setting for how the > scene was photographed, with whatever adjustments had been made within the > camera?
The "Camera Default" settings are contains pre-sets for Exposure, Shadows, Brightness, Contrast, Saturation and all settings under the detail and Calibrate tabs. These values are pre-set within PS CS RAW but can be altered and the new values saved as the new default settings. About the only setting that the camera directly influences is White balance but only when "As Shot" is selected. The camera records the scene like no film ever has or will, this is why digital image capture is so unlike film capture, it's all linear. The RAW convertor demosaics the RAW data and then applies curves (brightness and contrast, saturation) in order to make the data into a form that our output devices will present as believable rendering of the scene. The exposure and shadows adjustments set the points in the captured data that will be deemed as the brightest and darkest in the final image the other tools then just apply curves to the data set between these two pre-sets. Pre-setting the camera default is a little like standardizing on a particular film. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
