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

Subject: Re: [OM] The virtues of RAW (was: Divertimento)
From: Philippe <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 11:26:40 +0200
Le 3 août 2014 à 10:56, C.H.Ling <ch_photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Alternatively, on the hand of a good photographer, JPEG is fine French food.

ain't, from the horse's mouth ;-)

Amities
Philippe

> It require no or little seasoning but not everyone like it.
> 
> RAW is uncooked meat, it can be great or terrible, depends on how you process 
> it, just suit your taste.
> 
> C.H.Ling
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philippe" <philippe.amard@xxxxxx>
> 
> 
> 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
>>> 
> 
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