I would hate to lose the flexibility of RAW for my studio shoots. I still sometimes want to tweak the curve a bit during conversion, plus I think the interpolation to a larger size is superior from RAW. However, that wouldn't be an issue shooting medium format. Paul On Dec 8, 2006, at 7:57 AM, Mark Roberts wrote:
> William Robb wrote: >> From: "Paul Stenquist" >> >>> And I don't understand why anyone would want to shoot jpegs. >> >> Wants don't always enter into it. >> I need to be able to take a card out of the camera and put it into my >> printer and make prints. Several hundred prints at a time, and they >> have >> to be off the printer packaged and out the door within a couple of >> hours >> of being shot. >> For us, RAW is not only not an option, we would be foolish to bother >> trying. >> Instead, we exercise our control at the time of shooting, by not >> varying >> the lighting conditions and adjusting things to allow us to do what we >> need to do in lab to maintain our production values, while giving us >> the >> throughput speeds we require. > > I've heard of some big-time studio photogs who use medium format > digital in the studio and shoot JPEG. Given that these people probably > don't have the throughput demands that Bill does, I *suspect* that part > of their reason is unspoken - a lack of familiarity/comfort with RAW > workflow - that said, it does seem to me like one of the applications > in which shooting JPEG is viable. Because you have total control of the > lighting you can get the color balance right and it won't change on > you. And control of lighting means you can set up so you don't need the > wider latitude of RAW. > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
