Since starting to use the D last year I haven't taken one JPEG picture.
After
a week of shooting TIFF I changed over to RAW. This was after I read posts
about RSE on the group. Since then I've been processing the RAW images
with RSE and Photoshop CS. The camera spends most of the time on a
microscope and I might take several hundred pictures during a session.
My immediate concern now is the setting up of a database. It's very
difficult to
find a file in a stack of CDs unless I know the number or date. If
anyone has a
useful database program* I'd be interested to hear from them. I have to
do something
soon -- before things get out of hand. I also have several thousand
video clips, also on
CDs, that need to be cataloged.
* I have MS Access installed in my PC and OpenInsight on the shelf.
Don
Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
On Apr 15, 2006, at 7:26 AM, Charles Robinson wrote:
I'm with Cesar on this one. RAW may be technically superior, but it's
a pain to organize and work with. I am just not fussy enough, I guess.
I suppose if I were in the business of producing work for pay I might
have a different attitude. But who knows?
I disagree with you and Cesar. RAW format processing is more
complicated than JPEG and consumes more storage space, but it's not so
much more complex as to be difficult. I much prefer the fact that it
offsets some of the fussier aspects of controlling image processing to
some time other than when I'm taking the picture.
What is necessary to use RAW format effectively for a lot of photos is
a sensible and efficient process for moving the files into your
computer and operating the RAW conversion process. That's called a
workflow. *ANY* process that you do that with is a workflow, the
concept is not restricted to RAW files or processing a thousand
pictures at a time.
When I was still shooting both RAW and JPEG, I was struck by the fact
that it took me about the same amount of time and effort to manage the
JPEG files as it did the RAW files and I was losing photos because of
JPEG limitations, that's why I no longer use JPEGs very much at all.
When I do shoot JPEGs nowadays, I find I spend more time editing them
than I do with the RAW files because I have to do more work on a
selective basis, due to the narrower dynamic range and fragility of
editing on [EMAIL PROTECTED] data.
All that said, whatever works to make the photos you want is the right
way. It's the picture that counts in the end, no one but another
photographer cares how it was made...
Godfrey
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