Re: Why many settings arguments don't matter with RAW




dtype, as an addendum to your comments: I've shot shot slide film for
years -- literally, as you know, what you shot is what you got --- and RAW
gives me the same type of results and feedback that slide film did. It
allows me to tell the story I want to communicate with my photographs
which is the bottom line of "writing with light".

What utter rubbish, surely the reverse is true, surely RAW gives you maximum
opportunity to change everything afterwards?

To me, RAW avoids the problem of interference by some set of algorithms
that make me guess whether it was me or the camera that messed things
up -- shooting RAW tells me that it was the operator and not the
equipment! And as a learning tool for new photographers or for
experienced ones learning a new camera, RAW is invaluable.

Lastly, and to me this is very important to me, I find RAW cuts down on
the amount of time spent in post processing -- I don't have either the
time nor the inclination to do a bunch of "adjustments" to an image that
perhaps were a result of the camera settings in the first place. I'm a
professional photographer, not a Photoshop expert.

If you have the settings right in jpeg mode surely that will take less
effort to get to the final product?

P.S. I like my vegetables raw too.....:)

Me too.


Mike



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