On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 07:30:04PM -0500, Christine Nielsen wrote: > On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Brian Walters <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Yes, I'm not really sure just how often I'd use it... But the other > day I had an "oops" moment & shot a track meet full of jpegs before I > realized I had forgotten to reset to DNG capture... "Editing" those > pics for facebook display was so fast, it made me wonder why I bother > messing around with RAW files all the time... especially if only for > teenagers on fb. I still would like to have RAW images, but I don't > want to manage RAW plus jpegs... This seemed like an easy way (from > the contextual menu in the Finder) to create proofs, as needed.
Just be aware that the embedded JPEG preview in a RAW file is a very heavily compressed file - you really wouldn't want to use it for anything more than low-res web images to be viewed on cellphones. It's not the same thing as the JPEG you would get with RAW+JPEG. If you do in-camera conversion from a RAW you'll get a separate file just as if you'd shot RAW+JPEG in the first place. Basically, there's no free lunch. If you want RAW, shoot RAW. If you want a JPEG as well, then either shoot RAW+JPEG, or process the RAW files yourself (either in-camera or on your computer). Back in the days when I first got my *ist-D, even a 512MB microdrive was expensive, as was hard drive storage on the desktop. When I was at a race, shooting hundreds of images over a weekend for web use, I used to shoot JPEG (with the occasional three or four RAW+JPEG shots). Nowadays storage costs have come down almost a hundredfold, so I just shoot RAW+JPEG all the time. -- 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.
