So you always accept the WB that the camera hands you? A so-called accurate WB is not necessarily what a given scene calls for in the final rendered shot. You would not be tempted ever to add warmth or coolness for artistic reasons?
I do, all the time. I would never accept that I can only use JPEG out of a camera. I don't care what the SooC cult thinks. On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Tim Bray <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. -- -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.
