On 13 May 2004, at 19:57, matt antrobus wrote:
If you want the best out of the 1DS then shoot Raw, in which case the matrixDear Matt,
settings (along with all other camera settings apart from the ISO,shutter
speed and aperture) are irrelevant. Yes, I know the raw file is tagged with
your WB setting, but how useful is this when you get to the raw conversion
stage???
I totally agree with this for most short shoot situations, commercial, landscape etc etc but if you are shooting events, model portraits or God forbid, weddings, then in my opinion, so far anyway, jpeg is still the way to go for speed / quality compromise. In this instance, the colour matrix is relevant and worth discussing.
I now always use RAW for my landscape work but I find the flat looking files in CR take a lot more work to attain the higher quality it's capable of. To batch RAW into jpegs could create an average looking set of files if there's a range of subject matter. Portrait clients looking at the laptop are also therefore more impressed (initially) when they preview jpegs than RAW, and that can immediately influence sales.
If anyone has a way of batch converting say 300 varied condition portrait RAW files into quality review jpegs, I'd be very interested to know how.
With much interest, Regards,
Glyn
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