On May 22, 2013, at 11:41 , Ciprian Dorin Craciun <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Charles Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> However - in real-world shooting: I've been shooting RAW since about March >> of 2008 - starting with my K10D, then the K7, and now the K5. I've never >> had a problem with "not knowing what I get". The images largely just work, >> especially now with the K5 and its more-accurate metering and much-wider >> exposure latitude. >> >> Certainly it's worked closely-enough that I can rely on the crappy JPEG >> preview of the image to know that I'm in the right ballpark. > > I just wonder what you mean by "worked closely-enough"? Have you > tweaked some settings to get the JPEG much closer to the "raw" image? > Simple question: why would I? I mean that I get acceptable results out of the camera and have no need to twiddle and fiddle. When in doubt, I bracket. That takes all of, what, a few seconds? But usually I find that my exposure "correction" is off the mark, and the original uncorrected exposure that the camera chose is the most-usable. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - [email protected] Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org http://www.facebook.com/charles.robinson -- 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.

