Hi, Just thought I =had= to jump in here. At one time I felt a lot of the technical stuff discussed here was useless - certainly to me - but as I got further into the craft of photography there were additional things I needed or wanted to know, and a lot of the info that I once dismissed I suddenly became interested in and found a use for.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: John Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Date: 5/19/2005 10:22:14 AM > Subject: Re: Raw > > On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:20:15PM -0700, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > > > > People on this list just love to pick everything apart on nitpicky > > details that make not one iota of difference to anyone. There's a lot > > of stuff about computers and operating systems, and digital cameras and > > film cameras, that no user/photographer needs to know at all. > > > > Godfrey > > Obviously, some of us disagree. To use a tool well it's better to > have an understanding of what that tool is doing. Knowing just how > a particular digital camera processes a RAW file is no more esoteric > than knowing how a particular developer affects pushed film. It's > not information *every* photographer needs to know, but to dismiss > it as information that no photographer ever needs is incorrect.
