"That would be the f-- message?" Seriously Bill, at first i thought you were just cussing.
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sep 27, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: > >> On 11-09-27 5:38 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >>> From: Larry Colen >>>> I just ran across my photos from burning man a year ago where I >>>> hadn't realized that my freshly repaired K20 had been reset to the >>>> factory default of "shoot jpeg". If I cared so little about my >>>> photos that I wanted to shoot JPEGs, I wouldn't spend the money on a >>>> DSLR. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> If you get the exposure (and white balance, and ...) correct in camera JPEG >>> is all you need. >> >> The best film-days analogy I have is that shooting straight to JPEG is like >> shooting Polaroids, and shooting RAW is like shooting negatives. The >> Polaroid gives you the convenience of straight to finished picture, at the >> expense of doing any darkroom work. >> >> Everyone shoots differently and decides what convenience level they prefer >> and what they'll give up for it. For me, the RAW image I get in the camera >> is just the beginning of the journey to a finished image. I don't publicly >> display a single image, not one, that I can say is Straight Out Of Camera. I >> have lots of images that I've never edited, but it's because they haven't >> been flagged as keepers for further work. >> >> -bmw > > I agree with Bruce. Although I might compare shooting jpegs to shooting > transparency film, while shooting RAW is more like shooting negative film. > However, RAW conversion gives you many more options for image improvement > than does printing a negative. For example, you can set the white point and > black point to suite the image perfectly, and you can adjust contrast and > brightness in the midrange without changing those end point values. You can > fill shadow areas with a bit of light while leaving the rest of the image > virtually untouched. You can fine tune your saturation and white point. And > more. The only time I shoot jpegs is when I have to produce 500 frames for > virtual tours. But for anything else, it's RAW. I'd be lost without the > control that RAW affords. > Paul >> >> -- >> 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. > -- Steve Desjardins -- 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.
