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Re: [OM] The virtues of RAW (was: Divertimento)

Subject: Re: [OM] The virtues of RAW (was: Divertimento)
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 12:59:14 +0100
I think the raw preachers have already got most of us sitting in the choir,
while a few others stand outside with their fingers in their ears singing
la-la-la.  Conversion just doesn't seem likely.
Jez


On 1 August 2014 08:18, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I had shot JPEG only for a long peroid of time with my E10, cost was the
> major reason. It was early 2001 to early 2003 when the price of a small
> capacity memory card was just like a new DC today. With the 64MB
> Smartmedia,
> sometimes I even have to shoot at low quality JPEG.
>
> In order to get more room for adjustment, I set the camera to low contrast.
> Also, I carefully expose the scenes and adjust color temp during shooting.
> At 2003 when I got a Canon 10D I started to shoot RAW but sometime still
> shoot JPEG only as the cost of CF was still very expensive. Honestly say, I
> don't think JPEG only does not work. Of course, with the low memory cost
> today, I don't see a reason not to shoot RAW.
>
> Consider Brian had paid $600 for a kitchen mixer tap (the cost of an i7
> here
> for me), I believe the real cost is more on the learning curve of a new
> computer/OS and RAW converter/editor. These may look easy for some people
> but not for everyone.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>
> This is just ridiculous. You should go back to film if you are not prepared
> to have an adequately sized computer for 2014 requirements.
>
> I have an image with proof, from my very first month of shooting digitial,
> 10 years ago:
>
> http://www.frozenlight.eu/nathanfoto/paw/2004/2004_31alt1.jpg
>
> This is with a Canon 10D, my first digital camera. Due to lack of
> knowledge,
> and for “convenience”, I was shooting JPG.
> After posting this among my PAWs for week 31 in 2004, I decided (based on
> some suggestions) that it would be better in B&W. But when I went to
> convert
> it, ugly artifacts appeared. No matter what I did, I just could not get a
> decent B&W conversion. I was using Photoshop at the time (don’t remember
> the
> version, but it was the current one at the time). I finally gave up on the
> B&W but since that experience, I have never bothered shooting JPG. RAW only
> for me.
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
>
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