One of the ironic mistakes that Sigma made was having RAW only dSLRs. That ensured that the photographer had the maximum potential files, but because the camera was ostensibly aimed at amateurs, it backfired badly as being perceived as a crucial weakness of the camera. John Bean (UK) used to blow me away with his Sigma dSLR images.
Jeffery On Nov 23, 2010, at 9:02 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Jeffery Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: >> I would switch to RAW even with non-existent processing skills. The RAW >> conversion process isn't really difficult, and your results will probably be >> better. I don't like the camera doing any sharpening, color balance, etc. > > In particular, if you are using Lightroom anyway, the processing for > raw or JPEG or TIFF or PSD files is presented by the exact same tools > and UI, so if you can edit one you can edit any of them. The > difference is that with raw files you have a lot more processing > potential to work with than any of the others. > > Lightroom's standard calibration and camera profile defaults for raw > files are generally quite good (although usually different from the > in-camera JPEG rendering options) so there's little real difference > between doing the simple effort of bringing in JPEGs and outputting > them to size and doing the same thing with raw files. As soon as you > start to adjust things, however, the greater resiliency and > capabilities of the raw files are immediately apparent. > > > -- > Godfrey > godfreydigiorgi.posterous.com > > -- > 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. -- 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.
