RE: [Leica] Digilux not same as Lumix apparently (was Re: TheLEICA DIGILUX 2 is announced)

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Actually, there's an easy way to 'save it back into that format,' and
that's to do all your work on a copy of the original. That way you can
convert it nine million times, if that's how you get your jollies.;-)

But btw, Photoshop CS's converter allows you to change the white
balance, adjust the exposure, etc. etc. etc. Everyone I've spoken with
thinks the Photoshop raw conversion software beats the proverbial pants
off anything provided by the camera manufactuers. Whether it beats
third-party 'work flow' conversion software is another question.
And, yes, Adam, I'd sure say you're right. The whole point of converting
the raw files is to...convert them..;-)

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Digilux not same as Lumix apparently (was Re:
TheLEICA DIGILUX 2 is announced)


On 2003-12-05 mark@rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) thoughtfully wrote: 

>"Raw seems less raw than Nikons NEF which is their Raw. And in which 
>you can adjust the white point and EV's as if you were just taking the 
>picture. Only you are at your computer dealing with an image which 
>you'd taken in the past. To me that's pretty amazing. And a bummer 
>Photoshop can't save it back into that format.

But that defeats the entire purpose, doesn't it? After you have
processed a file's RAW image in photoshop it's not RAW any more - all
the work of assembling the camera's pixel data has been done to show it
to you. Taking that image apart again to simulate what the camera's chip
has output would create artifacts and gain you nothing.

I think.

Adam
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