Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted Grant wrote: > Quite frankly for the not better educated folks, all this stuff is > scary as hell! :-( > > I know how to take pictures and I think I've done that fairly well > over the past half century, but we developed film we understood, made > prints wherever the darkroom had to be set-up, a motel washroom or our > home or office darkroom and we did our thing. Simple, no brainer > photography! But we knew what we were doing! KISS Ted, It ought to scare you and everyone who shoots digital. In the film days it was simple you shot a roll of film and souped that film and had your originals that you could print then or 15 years from the time you shot it. Now every camera that comes to market has a new form of some unique type of file format that requires software to decode to produce best results. Yes one can shoot in jpg format but when you compare what you are loosing by doing so it is not a good idea. Shooting in the native or RAW format allows you more latitude and also much more speed in processing the photos once you understand and learn a RAW workflow. Dealing with jpgs is more cumbersome, not as bad now that I have switched to Aperture for my digital work, but still not as nice as RAW workflow is. DNG has been touted as a solution to this issue, and it is possible it could become such if everyone were to adopt it. As it now stands it is Adobe's RAW format. Many non Adobe editors do not recognize DNG files, which is very bad if you buy into DNG and delete all your NEF or CRW files after converting to DNG and then decide to use something like Bibble, Aperture or even the camera makers software...just won't work on dng. All of this is confusing, scary and very frustrating at times, but it is what we do now. No longer does it suffice to just be a photographer. Now you have to know at least a little more than a passing familiarity with a computer, FTP, file formats and all such things. Is enough to make your ears bleed at times. LOL -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html