Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/01/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ah Jean, shoot in RAW. You will never look back. The R-D1 has a good buffer. Not great, but with a fast card, you will not overload it. Heck, I have a slow SD card and I rarely overload it. We are shooting M style after all, not shot gun Canon style.... Imagine shooting in B&W but then redevelop in Color, or vice versa. 1GB gives you 100 pics, almost 3 rolls of Provia 100F. Not bad at all. At 11:33 AM 1/2/2005, Jean Louchet wrote: >.... >Another issue (which is THE issue that is keeping me from digital) is >coding and compression. All digital cameras, even the Epson, are several >years behind state-of-the-art technology. The well known old JPEG/JFIF >(*.jpg files) standard has been officially superseded five years ago by >JPEG-2000 (ISO standard *.jp2 files) and all the corresponding software is >freely available, but no camera maker has built it into their cameras as >yet. Jpeg2000 allows typical compression rates of about a factor 100x to >200x with no perceptible loss (to compare with old JPEG, in average 10x >with important loss, visible square artefacts, nasty graphics and >difficult post-processing): see an example on >... // richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please use richard at imagecraft.com)