On 15/04/07, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can shoot jpeg and drop them off at a lab for processing, and > some high-end labs now do RAW as well. It's the same equation as > before. Those who will settle for someone else's work shoot jpeg and > drop the card off at a lab. Those who wish to do their own, shoot > RAW. I wouldn't have wanted someone else processing my BW film any > more than I want someone else to process my digital images. What's > more, very few photographers process every RAW image they shoot. When > I shoot recreationally, I probably process only about 10%. The rest > can continue to live as DNG files until I either decide to discard > them or revisit them. When I shoot an event, I use the same > parameters for a number of shots, and I can process them quickly. My > photographic world is about the same as it was with film.
Same here, though I'm processing on the order of 30% overall and now with the K10D concurrently output a 2MP jpg file which is sufficient for web display and for quick small prints (which seems to satisfy most normal folk who just want pic for their photo album) from a lab or self serve kiosk. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net