On Sep 27, 2011, at 8:25 PM, Steven Desjardins wrote: > "That would be the f-- message?" > > Seriously Bill, at first i thought you were just cussing.
Huh??? > > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> > wrote: >> >> On Sep 27, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Bruce Walker wrote: >> >>> On 11-09-27 5:38 PM, John Sessoms wrote: >>>> From: Larry Colen >>>>> I just ran across my photos from burning man a year ago where I >>>>> hadn't realized that my freshly repaired K20 had been reset to the >>>>> factory default of "shoot jpeg". If I cared so little about my >>>>> photos that I wanted to shoot JPEGs, I wouldn't spend the money on a >>>>> DSLR. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> If you get the exposure (and white balance, and ...) correct in camera >>>> JPEG is all you need. >>> >>> The best film-days analogy I have is that shooting straight to JPEG is like >>> shooting Polaroids, and shooting RAW is like shooting negatives. The >>> Polaroid gives you the convenience of straight to finished picture, at the >>> expense of doing any darkroom work. >>> >>> Everyone shoots differently and decides what convenience level they prefer >>> and what they'll give up for it. For me, the RAW image I get in the camera >>> is just the beginning of the journey to a finished image. I don't publicly >>> display a single image, not one, that I can say is Straight Out Of Camera. >>> I have lots of images that I've never edited, but it's because they haven't >>> been flagged as keepers for further work. >>> >>> -bmw >> >> I agree with Bruce. Although I might compare shooting jpegs to shooting >> transparency film, while shooting RAW is more like shooting negative film. >> However, RAW conversion gives you many more options for image improvement >> than does printing a negative. For example, you can set the white point and >> black point to suite the image perfectly, and you can adjust contrast and >> brightness in the midrange without changing those end point values. You can >> fill shadow areas with a bit of light while leaving the rest of the image >> virtually untouched. You can fine tune your saturation and white point. And >> more. The only time I shoot jpegs is when I have to produce 500 frames for >> virtual tours. But for anything else, it's RAW. I'd be lost without the >> control that RAW affords. >> Paul >>> >>> -- >>> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> PDML@pdml.net >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. >> > > > > -- > Steve Desjardins > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
