Shooting RAW files are the next step for us. Until August or so of last year, we were still shooting 35mm for major crime scenes. It has taken us quite a while to get our staff and the DA's office on board for an all-digital office. Until I could prove it wouldn't be an issue in court, they wouldn't allow me to have Photoshop on my computer for fear the defense could claim we "monkeyed" with the files. Also, I went back and checked the file sizes, we do run about 2.6 mb per pic. The detail is amazing, especially on macro setting. I have photographed serial numbers on the side of an electrical motor in pitch black darkness and had incredible results. Blessings, Jerry Godsey www.remnantchurchonline.com www.godseysbostons.com
----- Original Message ----- From: Levi Wallach To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2007 11:56 AM Subject: RE: [Treo] Re: 755p That's nothing! My D70 (which I got almost 3 years ago now, I can't believe that!) produces around 4.5MB RAW files. So I assume that the images you are taking with these cameras are jpeg, in which case, yes, the file sizes will go up, but not by as much, since JPEG compresses things a lot. Not so with RAW, which is the uncompressed data from the sensor. My wife, who is a professional photographer, has a Fuji S5. This camera has two sensors and effective12MP, and can produce RAW+Jpeg images in one shot. According to the manual, at the highest dynamic range/resolution/etc., they can get up to 32MB per image! Levi Levi Wallach Blog: twelveblackcodemonkeys.com <http://twelveblackcodemonkeys.blog-city.com/> DVD Review Site: dvdmon.com <http://www.dvdmon.com/> Pictures at: http://wallachexpressions.smugmug.com/Levi <http://wallachexpressions.smugmug.com/Levi> ________________________________ From: [email protected] on behalf of Jerry Godsey Sent: Wed 5/9/07 2:13 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Treo] Re: 755p One thing to remember, as megapixels go up, so do file size. At the Sheriff's Office Scientific Investigations Unit we went from the Nikon D70S (approx 6 megapixel, if I remember right) to the D200 at 10.2 megapixel. Beautiful photos, but huge! They are running about 2MB each picture. We have an 8GB card for the cameras now to give us plenty of room over the 1GB cards we used to use. Just something to think about. Blessings, Jerry Godsey [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
