When handed RAW exposures that are "normal" overall, Pentax Photo Lab's default settings will produce results very similar to what the in-camera JPEG engine will produce. This makes sense as the camera's RAW conversion engine and PPL's default operations were designed together.
The advantage of capturing the RAW data is that you have more processing options (more editability and dynamic range) for when the lighting situation is not so 'normal' and goes out of bounds of what the JPEG engine can render well at the default settings or with the coarse adjustability available from the camera controls. You might want to find a copy of the late Bruce Fraser's "Real World Camera Raw..." book and read the first couple of chapters. it is a very articulate explanation of how RAW capture and JPEG rendering differ, and why you might want to use RAW instead. Gdofrey On Jul 9, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Steve Desjardins wrote: > Hey folks, > > I've been playing with some raw files using Pentax Photo Laboratory. > I've been using raw+ so I can compare my results with the in-camera > JPG. > I usually set the sharpening higher but these are outdoor shots > and the > default color is pretty good. I save them to JPG and they look > similar > to the in-camera JPGs. So: > > 1. Are these well exposed pictures not challenging enough to show much > difference? > 2. Am I doing the RAW PP wrong? > 3. Am I just not very picky? > > I know this sounds funny, but I'm new to this RAW thing and I > wonder if > I'm missing something. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
