Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/05/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:18 PM 5/22/2005, I wrote: >If I can find the time, I'm going to put up a couple of photos to show what you can do with raw. O.K. I took one of the photos from my trip to the Middle East and processed the RAW file once for highlights and again for shadows and combined the two in Photoshop to increase the dynamic range. The first photo shows the jpeg that was saved by the camera at the same time as the RAW. Keep in mind that all of these had to be converted to small jpegs for the web. The difference in the Tiffs resulting from the two conversions is dramatic and the final Tiff histogram is smooth with no combs or artifacts that would result if you tried to do the same thing using the Shadow/Highlight adjustment on one Tiff file. This is just one quick example, but it's reason enough for me to save RAWs instead of only Tiffs or Jpegs. The RAW file is 10.5 MB and the Tiff is 47.9 MB - another reason to archive RAW. http://www.pbase.com/tinamanley/why_raw Tina Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com