[Leica] Reuters bans RAW

[Gerry Walden]

The message quite clearly states that this is aimed at speed rather than anything else. You have to remember that Reuters is a hot news agency in a very competitive world, and photographers (whether Reuters or not) are feeding stuff straight from their phones on to wi-fi links to picture desks from all over the world. They are not saying in the article that you should not shoot raw, they are saying basically don’t faff about just get us jpegs as quickly as possible because modern jpegs are of such high quality from the top-end cameras that we are happy. They do not want cropped images, they want full images so that they can hen crop as necessary with some leeway to move the crop box around the image.

Personally I can fully understand the move.

Gerry

> On 19 Nov 2015, at 06:35, Peter Klein <boulanger.croissant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> <
> http://petapixel.com/2015/11/18/reuters-issues-a-worldwide-ban-on-raw-photos/#more-191527
>> 
> 
> I thought this was a hoax, but evidently not. It sounds like this decision
> was made by an executive type with no technical knowledge of photography. I
> guess dodging and burning are now the enemy of truth.  But if photographers
> are still allowed to crop and adjust levels, how is it going to stop
> dishonest photoshopping? Is Reuters going to only allow the use of cameras
> that generate JPG checksums, with all cropping and levels editing done in
> camera?
> 
> Prepare for a lot of badly-exposed backlit, side-lit and
> sunlight-with-black-shadows pictures, I guess.
> 
> --Peter
> 
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