[Leica] Reuters bans RAW

[Mark Rabiner]

Nightmarish. A mindset coming from memes shot over the internet from chat
groups that bad is good, craft is bad by people who never dodged and burnt
nor otherwise crafted an image in the darkroom. Its also reflecting a mind
set of just covering ones asses.
Shooting jpegs is a horrible waste. But people like me forget that a jpeg
file which you just click on it opens in Raw just like a Raw file does.
That and they have no idea of the file was shot originally in jpeg, raw or
what.


On 11/19/15 10:16 AM, "Tina Manley" <images at comporium.net> wrote:

> I think most of their shooters already use jpeg only just for speed.  Some
> take both RAW and jpeg - the jpeg to submit and the RAW to work on later
> for themselves.  Makes sense, but I would never shoot jpeg only.
> 
> Tina
> 
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:35 AM, 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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