Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Okay, I'll admit it. RAW is pretty cool.
About time! >So for most of my work, I will continue to shoot Jpeg, like so: > ><http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/reportage/images/pic28.html> This is an especially good example of appropriate use of JPG shooting because it's a B&W conversion: One of the main advantages of RAW is after-the-fact white balance. The wedding pros I know, for example, shoot RAW (on automatic white balance) because of the lighting, which varies wildly between different places within a church, outdoors and indoors at the wedding reception. Shooting RAW lets them concentrate entirely on "getting the shot" because they know they can get the white balance right after the shoot is done. (And when the lighting is just too wonky to do anything at all with - strange mixed light sources illuminating different parts of the scene - they convert to monochrome <g>) >For those on-the-tripod studies, RAW is the way to go, without a doubt: > ><http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/nature/images/pic27.html> > >I made a 16x11 inch print of the fern from a 16 bit file for my wife and >it is stunning. I'm sold. Told ya ;-) -- Mark Roberts Photography and writing www.robertstech.com
