It will still be dozens of times faster than processing, scanning, and
printing 6x7 film. A good, automated RAW workflow makes it barely any more
work to get standard JPEGs out of the process than capturing in JPEG format
to begin with, but nets you the ability to go further when scene conditions
warrant additional effort.
Godfrey
Well-said. I really don't understand the credibility of the
anti-RAW argument that it adds a tremendous amount of work to the
workflow. Even in my linux-land, I've got an automated script to dump RAW
files from the card, apply auto white-balance, ICC profile, auto-exposure,
and dump out a high-quality JPEG complete with USM applied. You know...
EXACTLY what the camera does when you do an in-camera JPEG. All it costs
me is having to let my computer chew on them unattended for a few minutes.
In fact, the time it takes to copy the files from the card is about the
same as the processing from RAW->JPEG. Very little additional time is
taken for the 95% of the shots that are fine by default. For the 5% that
I want to give extra attention to (WB, exposure nonlinearities, etc), I've
got the master.
I'm *sure* that all of the spiffy winders-only expensive RAW
converters everyone uses can do the same as my free, open-source
utilities.
-Cory
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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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