On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Bruce Walker <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
My own take on the RAW/JPEG film analogy: I used to have my own B/W darkroom where I pushed, pulled, dodged and burned--that was like shooting RAW. However I never got around to color chemistry and professional labs were not that too accessible so I depended on and was at the mercy of commercial photo labs--that was like shooting JPEGs. Bong -- Bong Manayon http://bong.manayon.net -- 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.
