On 4 Oct 2005 at 21:46, Mark Roberts wrote: > It's actually quite similar to shooting B&W negative film. Expose the > neg for what you know you're going to have to do in the darkroom. > In fact, I'd say that shooting RAW and not expecting to adjust black and > white points is like shooting negative film and not expecting to print > on anything other than grade 3 paper, with no burning, dodging or other > subtle darkroom techniques. Yes, it's possible, but very, very rare. > > (Shooting JPEG in camera, however, is much more like shooting slide > film.)
When I was shooting JPG I spent a whole lot of time farting about in the set-up menus setting contrast and lot more time than I do now chimping at histograms. Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
