On Fri, 03 Jun 2011 18:46 -0600, "steve harley" <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2011-06-03 17:47 , Brian Walters wrote: > > On Tue, 31 May 2011 17:47 -0600, "steve harley"<[email protected]> > >> this is a funny question -- perhaps you don't realize that if you shoot > >> JPEG, you are *absolutely* handing over the image processing function to > >> software (in the camera) and unlike RAW, you can never go back to the > >> master > > > > > > No - I understand that. What I meant was, if you batch process a lot of > > files, is there any real difference to allowing Photoshop to process the > > files rather than letting the camera's software do it. > > not sure how Photoshop got mixed in here -- i thought we were talking > about "batch processing" as an aspect of importing into Lightroom or > Aperture
In my original post I was referring to Photoshop's batch processing (I don't have Lightroom - yet) and whether allowing it to apply fixed settings to the images was any different to allowing a camera's software to do it. There is a difference, of course, in that with RAW images the original file is still available for manual processing and it's 16 bit rather than 8. > > but in any case the in-camera processing is generally a set of specific > presets with few variable settings, and is provided for a market that's > generally not as quality-conscious as Photoshop's market; it's also > constrained by a chipset that's much less powerful than most computers; > by contrast in Photoshop you have more power, several orders of > magnitude more options on the processing, and formats that are non-lossy > and have much wider dynamic range than 8-bit JPEGs > Understood. Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- 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.
