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

Subject: Re: [OM] ***SPAM*** Re: The virtues of RAW (was: Divertimento)
From: Nathan Wajsman <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 10:31:06 +0200
Even worse: Bud Light

Nathan Wajsman

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On 03 Aug 2014, at 09:18, Philippe <philippe.amard@xxxxxx> wrote:

> JPEG is the Mac Donald of photography
> Or is it Budweiser?
> 
> Amities
> Philippe
> 
> Le 1 août 2014 à 13:59, Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
> 
>> 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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