----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Studdert"
Subject: Re: Taking, Making, Creating Images
Looking at it another way, suppose your RAW conversion is a fully calibrated
hands free process (PS CS can be set up this way), just like calibrated
chemistry for film processing. In this case the RAW file could be considered
analogous to an unprocessed colour film of any sort. Once the RAW file is
processed and saved you have a fixed image file processed via a pre-calibrated
system just like a processed film.
You can choose to work as if the system is fixed but you also have the option
to alter and optimise the process if you wish. This is true too of film but to
a lesser degree (in the case of colour films). The thing is that most people
working in RAW tend to take advantage of the flexibility most don't when
processing films.
Does this make any sense?
Thats how I see it too.
The whole idea of RAW is to process the image after the fact, rather than letting processing happen in camera (TIFF, or the much less flexible JPEG).
William Robb
