On May 28, 2007, at 9:52 AM, Kenneth Waller wrote: >> What does every one here have there image tone and contrast >> setting on? > > Since I'm shooting RAW & using CS2 for final image rendition, my > camera > settings are all at the factory defaults. > If you're trying to get images directly out of the camera without > further > manipulations, then using modified camera setting makes sense.
All my photos come out of the camera as PEFs and into Lightroom as DNGs... but there's another reason to adjust the JPEG image processing defaults. Like many others, I am only concerned with RAW capture files ... but if I set the color tone to "natural", contrast, saturation and sharpening down to minimum, what shows up on the LCD in playback or review with histogram and saturation blinkies is more accurate with regard to where I have underexposure or saturation in the RAW file. It's somewhat hard to judge sharpness if you're doing critical work on a tripod and using Digital Preview this way, but for my usual shooting it is very handy to click up a Digital Preview in a hard lighting situation and see where I need to shift the exposure accurately. Godfrey -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
