On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:41 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: > What verbal adjective begins with f, is frequently not written out by > replacing it's letters by placeholders, and is often used by > passionate people like our friend Bill?
I get that, but it's not in this thread, which appears to be about shooting jpegs and includes no comments from Bill. Perhaps it was in another branch of the thread. I skipped most of it, so I wouldn't know. > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Paul Stenquist <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: >> >>> "That would be the f-- message?" >>> >>> Seriously Bill, at first i thought you were just cussing. >> >> >> Huh??? >>> >>> >>> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. -- 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.
