Default," is the data as recorded by the sensor, as interpreted per the PSCS default settings.
Once you've tweaked
the camera default RAW file, you'll see that the file will be designated "Selected
Image." After you've made your RAW converter tweaks, you can scroll up
from Selected Image back to Camera Default ,and the image will revert
to what it was. I sent you some RAW files that had been tweaked.
IMGP7928.PEF, IMGP7604.PEF, and IMGP7925.PEF. If you look at the box
next to the word "settings," you'll see that the "setting" is "selected
image." If you change this to "Camera Default," you'll see the file as
it was before I did anything in the converter. Perhaps the most
interesting of these three is the wakeboarding pic IMGP7925.PEF. You'll
see it's almost two stops underexposed. (Hey, that's not my fault the
boat had just changed directions. That's why she's hanging on for dear
life. No time to change the stop.) When I processed this file in the RAW
converter, I turned the exposure up to 1.8O, and did my normal
sharpening and other adjustments. You'll see the 1.80 reading on the
exposure slider bar. You'll also see the other changes when you're in
the "Selected Image" setting. The sharpness change is the most
significant. This file, while obviously underexposed, ended up being
one of the best shots of the series. It prints beautifully at 12 x 18,
as sharp as one could ask for. I included my final print ready version
of this file as well. It's amy53shr.tif. It's a 76 meg, 16.5 x 12.5
file. That's not to say, of course, that it wouldn't have been even
better if it were exposed a bit more, but I believe the difference would
have been incremental.
On Nov 23, 2004, at 9:40 PM, 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?
Shel
