Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/22

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Subject: [Leica] Now RAW vs JPEG
From: images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley)
Date: Sun May 22 15:12:57 2005
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At 05:30 PM 5/22/2005, you wrote:

>The workflow is this:
>
>RAW -> lossless conversion -> TIFF
>
>-- the key here is the *lossless conversion* step.
>
>Jonathan

But in order to store the image as a tiff, you are converting it.  You lose 
the ability to change anything in the conversion process.  Raw contains all 
of the information available.  Converting to tiff you are making choices 
about white balance, exposure, contrast, sharpening, and many, many 
more.  Those can't be changed once you convert to tiff.  With raw you have 
the ability to change those every time you convert.  Raw images also take 
up much less space than tiffs.  Why wouldn't you save raws?

Tina

Tina Manley, ASMP
www.tinamanley.com




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