David Zaninovic mused: > > What are the advantages of keeping RAW of a picture > instead of converting it to a TIF file without any adjustments ?
1) It's smaller. 2) If you save 8-bit TIFF, you're throwing away information 3) You can change white balance, etc., later. > How can I do no adjustments to a RAW file and save it as TIF ? > So no WB or sharpening, color saturation or any other settings applied. There's going to have to be some WB setting chosen. The question is whether you select it explicitly, or use the automatic setting. If you are using the Pentax-supplied Photo Laboratory software, setting the sharpening to the minimum, and leaving other settings (saturation, brightness, contrast) on the middle value, probably comes as close to no modifications as you can manage. > The only thing I would like to be applied is debayerisation and > maybe hot pixel fixing. TIF should keep all the information that > was in the RAW file except camera settings and other EXIF information, > I don't care about those anyway. The Bayer reconstruction algorithm used by the Pentax software (and, presumably, also used by the in-camera firmware) isn't as good as some of the alternatives (such as Adobe Camera Raw). If you save a RAW image you can re-process it using a different algorithm if you find one you like better.
