Well, they do look pleasing to the eye. In particular, the X-cams’ auto-white-balance is frighteningly good, I basically never go near that control in Lr, and WB correction is one place where you can fix things in RAW that you just can’t in JPEG. But yeah, I don’t find the idea tempting either.
On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 5:48 PM, steve harley <[email protected]> wrote: > on 2014-04-15 18:17 Tim Bray wrote > >> Alternately, all the Fuji X-cam reviews say they make JPEGs that are >> really excellent, to the extent that RAW might be superfluous. So >> maybe no big deal. > > > i often see this kind of statement (not just for Fuji), and i am puzzled — > in what world would an 8-bit lossy image always be rendered just how i'd > like, to the point that i would never want the latitude that a 14-bit raw > file gives? even if the rendering is very good, how would the camera guess > what i wanted to do with the image? > > or is it an exercise like shooting slide film — you have to practice until > you shoot with the specific rendering traits in mind? > > > -- > 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.
