Humm Interesing.
I;ll try a few peg/dng shots in Vegas, and see what happens. Current;ly i'm doing jpg/dng Dave On 4/7/07, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Last Sunday I took some shots of a choral recital. I wanted to shoot RAW > because the lighting was tricky (in a church, no flash allowed, half the > group in full stain-glass filtered sun, half in the gloomy chancel). I > decided to use PEF vs DNG, just so I could squeeze enough photos on the > card to avoid changing cards while shooting. > > Of course I forgot about the PEF setting and yesterday went out shooting > wildflowers using PEF as opposed to DNG for about 350 shots. > > I may be crazy, but the ISO 400 shots I took yesterday - under pretty > gloomy overcast skies and flat light - seem to have more noise in the > backgrounds than the DNG shots I've been taking up till now. I haven't > done a scientific comparison, but I've looked at a lot of shots taken as > DNG's at ISO 400, and these certainly seem different. Not to the point > of being unacceptable - but just some cyan-magenta sprinkles. > > Last Sunday's choir shots were taken at ISO 800, plus I had to do a lot > of shadow,highlight, and color temp adjustment while processing the RAW > files to compensate for the lighting situation. Those were more noisy > than I'm used to, but I figured that was the inevitable result of higher > ISO (I almost never go above 400) and the adjustments. > > Has anyone else switched back and forth between the two formats and seen > a difference? > > - MCC > > > -- > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Mark Cassino Photography > Kalamazoo, Michigan > www.markcassino.com > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- Equine Photography www.caughtinmotion.com http://brooksinthecountry.blogspot.com/ Ontario Canada -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
