Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/08/17

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Subject: [Leica] Re: DMR and my R8 /RAW vs Jpeg
From: bdcolen at comcast.net (B. D. Colen)
Date: Wed Aug 17 17:17:37 2005

Amen, Tina. For quite a while I shot large jpgs and then saved as tiffs. And
then with the advent of CS2 I got serious about shooting RAW. What a
difference! It really is like getting a negative.


On 8/17/05 7:35 PM, "Tina Manley" <images@InfoAve.Net> wrote:

> At 06:17 PM 8/17/2005, you wrote:
>> Not 100% true. I have 16x20's of nice looking jpegs. I can't always shoot
>> 700-900 RAW images in one day, too much time editing.
>> 
>> Chris
> 
> And you can make a really nice looking 16x20 from a drugstore 3x5,
> unless you compare it to a 16x20 made from a properly developed RAW
> file.  Check out Photoshop CS2, converting from RAW, when your
> lighting is almost the same, is as fast as downloading jpegs.  And
> you still have the RAW to develop another way if you want
> to.  Nothing can compare to having a RAW file to play with.  You
> could spend the rest of your life trying different exposures.  But
> you can also get a really quick good automatic exposure if that's
> what you want, never affecting the original file.
> 
> Tina
> 
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> www.tinamanley.com
> 
> 
> 
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