I was just testing out my new Eye-Fi card for tethered shooting. My plan is to have images pop up in Lightroom as I shoot so I can check for desired lighting, focus, etc. The card basically works fine, it transfers RAW images nicely, but the process was pretty slow and it runs even more slowly if I'm actively shooting -- the card waits to xfer until there's a lull. So I decided to switch the camera to RAW+ (RAW and JPEG) and tell the Eye-Fi card to only transfer the JPEGs. I plan to dump the RAWs to the Mac later, but I will get the JPEG previews right away, as I'm shooting.
To my amazement, I found that four star 14.6Mpixel JPEGs are exactly the same size as the PEFs I've been getting off the K20D; averaging about 10-11 megabytes each. So I configured the K20 for 2Mpixel 2-star JPEGs and that brought them down to 500 KB. These xfer off the Eye-Fi extremely fast and show up right away. The thing is though, those people who think that RAW images are too big and that they are saving space by shooting JPEG are being silly, unless they are also turning the JPEG quality way down. And if they are doing *that*, then really: why use a dSLR at all? Might as well shoot RAW, get all the benefits of extended dynamic range and tweakability, and not worry that they use more space and resources, 'cause they don't. -- -bmw -- 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.
