Re: colour shift under big lighting

[Mark Cassino]

The speed really is the big issue. I can fire off a burst in RAW or JPG, but 
the down time between bursts is much greater with RAW.  I have only 2.5 gigs 
of cards (2 1 gigs and 2 256) and the X's drive II. But - it takes about 15 
minutes to dump a gig on the X's drive, and I would probably burn through 
the 70 shots per gig on the spare card that quickly. If I were to do more of 
this a couple of larger microdrives or CF cards would be useful - but I 
would still need the speed that shooting JPG's give.

- MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Herb Chong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 8:56 PM
Subject: Re: colour shift under big lighting


well, i have 10G total space on my set of CF cards and single Microdrive, 
12G if i press into service some of my older CF cards. that's close to 900 
frames in RAW. since i plan to get one of the 6G Microdrives, that would 
make almost 1200 frames. i know one can chew up frames really fast at a 
sporting event, but once you start getting up into that high an amount of 
space, a portable drive unit with 20-40G of disk space with only two or 
three 2G cards makes a lot of sense.

Herb....
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Cassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <pentax-discuss@pdml.net>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: colour shift under big lighting


You are right re RAW files. I should of mentioned that I shoot JPG at the 
swim meets,  mostly because I need the speed and to be able to hold lots 
of images on my CF cards. So, the process I described about locking in 
the white balance and then applying an adjustment curve in Photoshop is 
really only germane to shooting JPG's.  If you are shooting RAW you have 
the flexibility when you open the file, so it's not much of an issue.