A picture is worth a thousand words, so I've made one to show 3 plausible ways of doing it: http://www.web-options.com/Drawing1.jpg
No doubt there are other possibilities. -- Bob > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Bob W [...] > > If you think about the processes that are going on, it must be true. > > Suppose you decide that you are going to 'shoot jpeg', which only > means you're going to store jpeg. You make an exposure which the > sensor records. The software reads the data from the sensor, converts > it to jpeg on the fly and stores the results. > > When you walk up to the printer and plug the camera in, the software > in the camera reads the jpeg file and converts it into the format that > the printer understands. > > If you decide to shoot raw, then when you make an exposure the > software reads the data from the sensor and stores it without > converting it to jpeg. > > When you walk up to the printer and plug the camera in, the software > in the camera reads the raw file and converts it into the format that > the printer understands. > > There is no reason at all why the same algorithm that makes jpeg > results USABLE, as you put it, wouldn't be used on the conversion from > raw to the printer format, since both processes start from the same > place, and end up in the same place. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
