Question to fellow DSLR users
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Question to fellow DSLR users
How many of you shoot raw vs jpeg? And if you shoot raw which
converter do you use?
converter do you use?
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I shoot Raw and convert in most of the time in PSCS2 and sometimes in Raw Shooter.
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I almost always shoot raw, the main reason being that there is lossless compression and I can control the white balance settings after the fact. With jpgs you get lossy compression and the white balance is set at write time. I use canon, and just use Canon's software to transfer the raw to tiff, where I use photoshop for postprocessing and saving as jpgs if the need be.
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I shoot mostly large JPEG but if there's a sweet shot I have to have, I'll set it on RAW+Large JPEG. Even then I have never had to use the RAW version, the JPEG nails it just as good if you get it right. As for losslessness (is that a word, ha!), if you save your JPEG as a TIFF then you don't have to worry about it. I find RAW takes up a LOT of unnecessary space (for me anyway) and is more time consuming to work with. I don't like spending time with images. I still prefer Fuji Velvia 50.
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The biggest advantage to RAW that i find is white balance. Digitals are getting better at it, but depending on the conditions, like snow etc, it can be off quite a bit, and getting it back to how you saw it in RAW is very easy without loosing image quality.
I do see Bucks point about getting it right in the camera the first time, sometimes we all rely too much on being able to just shoot the scene a ton instead of figuring it all out first before taking the shot.
I do see Bucks point about getting it right in the camera the first time, sometimes we all rely too much on being able to just shoot the scene a ton instead of figuring it all out first before taking the shot.
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Well, I don't always get it right in the camera the first time, I usually bracket the h-e-double-toothpicks out of an image that I really want so one of them is bound to come out, ha ha! I find RAW especially useful if I'm shooting people shots inside so I can adjust white balance afterwards because I never change my settings in camera. If I did, I would always forget to set it back. I don't like to complicate things too much. Otherwise I find JPEG gives me what I would've done anyway. The Canon gods are pretty smart dudes.
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