Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]2007-06-14-00:00:45 Ted Grant: > I have to confess after many attempts of coping with RAW on other digi > cameras or whatever it is in the M8, I shoot JPEG! Oh jeeeeesh now I'll be > in the glue for that one. ;-) Oh, Ted, say it ain't so! I share your enthusiasm for the M8 -- it's quite frankly the first digital camera which truly feels as if it belongs in my hand -- this after a purgatory with Canon SLRs and a desperate attempt to love the Cosina/Epson RD1. I can go back to my old film-M ways of getting pictures of people being themselves without throwing up a huge bow-wave. But... to really pull out the absolute best picture the camera captured, I believe you need to work from the DNG. How about this as a compromise: why don't you set the camera to JPEG+DNG, and just ignore the DNG files for the most part, using the pre-boiled JPEGs as you usually do -- but save the DNG files in case you want them later. Then, if you take a picture you really love, and want to make a big beautiful print with the full range of tonality, or you take a picture you think would have been great if the highlights or shadows had been a little less blocked, you might get inspired to see what you can do with the DNG version of that picture. Maybe working from DNGs seems like too much bother for every single picture, but I swear you'll like what you get if you keep 'em around for when you want to make particular keeper frames sing.