Cory Papenfuss wrote:
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I've rigged up a "dumpcam" script that slurps down all RAW files,
converts to medium-quality JPG using ICC color profile, sharpens, and
saves RAWs. It's pretty much set to auto white-balance, auto-exposure
compensate... just like the camera would have. Then on the few that
you want to put the extra time in, I can do some more tweaking...
knowing that I've got the best quality that my current photography
skills allow.
Sounds like the way it should be... I must say that when I express a
certain scepticism to digital photography now and then, it's partly
because of all the talk about the "workflow" on this list and elsewhere,
which gives me the impression that although you also read a lot about
how "simple" digital is, it has actually introduced extra work that *has
to be done*...
Also, I've never thought a lot about "colour balance" with film, but
perhaps that's because the lab has done the job for me? I wonder if
there are many labs that will accept "raw" files and do something
productive with them these days, by the way. Most of the "consumer" ones
I've come across seem to know of no other file format than JPEG, if you
know what I mean...
The only part of the RAW workflow that is inherently slower is the
act of copying larger files, and the RAW conversion itself... takes
10-20 seconds each of unsupervised computer time. Just need to think
the workflow through initially to streamline it.
-Cory
