Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/23

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Subject: [Leica] Now RAW vs JPEG
From: lmc at interlink.es (Luis Miguel Castañeda)
Date: Mon May 23 04:29:35 2005
References: <200505230158.j4N1uKPO009361@server1.waverley.reid.org> <5.1.0.14.2.20050522224949.00be05e0@mail.2alpha.com> <6.1.2.0.2.20050523064928.01faabe0@mail.comporium.net>

On 23 de may de 2005, at 13:05, Tina Manley wrote:

> If I only had saved the Tiffs, I wouldn't be able to do that.

You're right Tina, this discussion is becoming quite long for a thing 
widely discussed elsewhere.

Things are much simpler, and have little to do with information that 
can be contained in the file more than the what was the destination for 
the format. TIFFs and JPGs (and most other formats as PNG, etc) are 
intended to save as much significant information as possible, RAW is a 
bit-dump sorta-plain format of the sensor capture *with no processing* 
(more or less true depending makers etc); any further processsing is up 
to you, you decide (WB, sharpness, contrast, etc), not the programs 
stored in the camera as it will do it in a JPG or TIFF.

Sometimes it can be the only decent way to rescue detail in a burned 
light or underexposed shadow, among many other things (as changing a 
mistaken WB without going nuts)... but deciding what's good enough for 
anyone methods is up to anyone. I'll keep shooting and using RAW, 
thanks :)


Saludos
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In reply to: Message from pklein at 2alpha.net (Peter Klein) ([Leica] Now RAW vs JPEG)
Message from images at InfoAve.Net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] Now RAW vs JPEG)