BTW: I use the Lightroom preference to treat JPEG files with the same name as a RAW file, on import, as a duplicate sidecar. That way I only get RAW files imported, or JPEG files if no RAW file exists.
Godfrey On Apr 30, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Stan Halpin wrote: > To amplify just a bit on Godder's reply... > > If you shoot a few frames as RAW+JPEG and then import them into LR, > it is easy to see at a glance which are the JPEG (lighter) and which > are the RAW (darker). I was reminded of this last night while > scrolling through way too many thumbnails to try and find a shot of > my mother-in-law that my wife needed ASAP... (Don't anybody mention > Keywords to me. I know all about them and sometimes even use them. > Just not on shots that I have any reason to look for later.) I came > across a bunch of duplicate shots, with one version lighter than the > other. It took my work- and wine-befuddled mind a while before I > realized that they were from the brief era when I was doing the RAW > +JPEG thing. (Don't ask why, I haven't a clue. It must have seemed > like a good idea at the time.) The camera does its magic processing > of RAW to JPEG, saves the result and/or puts a small version of it on > the LCD for you to view. And uses that JPEG version as the basis for > its scene analysis which yields the histogram. You need to do that > processing yourself with the RAW output. Which I usually find usually > involves adding some exposure or fill-lighting. This was true with > the *ist-D as well as the K10D. > -- 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.
