Re: Suggest a DLSR for a beginner

Pete D wrote:
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So all your slides came straight from your camera, must have been one
of them there polaroid ones.

Just because you were not in the darkroom when they were processed
does not mean work was not done.

I used mostly Kodachrome and Ektachrome, where every single image on the
cassette was processed identically, and every cassette was processed
nominally identically to every other.

By far the majority of my viewing of images is done on the monitor
screen (or TV or projector), so I don't have the problems like the
limited colour range of printed material.

How sad!

I forgot about the Chrsitmas cards and calendars I have made.


I'm not saying that all post-processing is wrong - far from it. If
that's the way you prefer to work so be it. But it should not be a
requirement of using a DSLR vesus a compact camera.

Any and I do mean absolutely all D-SLR camera can have their jpegs
set to give a ready to print result straight from the camera, the
better ones will let you develop RAW in the camera and produce jpegs
from the ones you choose.

There is a trade off of course and if you are happy with that all the
time then more power to you, the workflow with tols such as Lightroom
can be just as quick as importing directly from your memory card.

Last measurement I made importing from a card was 321 files totalling
216MB in 273 seconds.

Dare to experiment David and try and see just how powerful RAW can be
and you will reap the results. I will admit to doing a mixture of
jpeg and RAW but RAW certainly has much greater potential if you are
willing to try. I also will admit that the biggest print I have done
2.5 metres x 0.6 metres was shot in jpeg mode.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1330/1415466557_70f7d7772f_o.jpg

Cheers.

Pete

Nice one! Several images combined, or one single shot?

Oh, perhaps if I had the time I might do more RAW, but much of my
photography is events when hundreds of photos are taken each day. Often
Motor Racing, so getting the optimum exposure to within 1/3 of a stop is
not the major concern. The subject and composition telling the story of
the event or the personality is much more important.

All of these were JPEGs, almost all straight of the camera. Mostly Nikon
D40, some Ricoh R6.

http://david-taylor.fotopic.net/c1322695.html

Doubtless many could be better!

Cheers,
David


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