On 3/9/08, William Robb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Maas" > Subject: Re: Pentax Scene Modes vs. Raw > > > > As far as I'm aware, only Canon does the utterly crippled scene modes > > (No RAW, no ISO selection, etc). > > > My Canon using buddy found some sort of hack (The Undutchables?) that revised > the firmware to > allow a bunch of this sort of stuff to be shot in RAW instead of jpeg, but I > never saw the > point. The idea behind scene modes is to allow in camera processing to give > you a specific type > of output. It seems to me that using a scene specific shooting mode, and > then outputting to raw > is somehow defeating the purpose of the scene modes. > Or, I might be misunderstanding the whole thing, sine my eyes glaze over and > my ears bleed > anytime he starts talking about his Canon stuff.... > > William Robb >
Scene modes are primarily specialized AE modes on non-Canon bodies. Some also specify rendering options, but that's less common. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
