Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Matt, If you are going to be shooting inside, this means artificial lighting. Maybe tungsten, maybe fluorescent, maybe a mix. Under those circumstances shooting JPEG is a risky business. If your images turn out to have a color cast, you will have a much more difficult time correcting it in JPEG than if you have the RAW image to work from. Converting the JPEG to TIFF is not going to help, since your starting point is already degraded by the conversion to JPEG. I never shoot JPEG anymore, and certainly not in the circumstances you describe. Nathan Matt Morgan wrote: > Many thanks for all this info Daniel. I'm just packing now to go into > the heat of battle. > > I tried a few test shots yesterday, which seemed OK, but the lens is > very slow. As I'm inside for actors/theatre work I am slightly > concerned, but am hoping the subjects won't mind the light cranked up a > bit. I suppose I'd better set the ASA at 400 or more. > > Only major concern I had when looking at the shots, was that the blacks > contained white specks (artifacts?) > > Size wise, I'm also thinking of using JPEG setting in Fine. I presume I > can make TIFF copies in CS. > > My 'standard' lens is the 18-70. It is slow and I'm finding I'm not > getting the ultra sharp handhelds I need, but we'll see. > > Just got to look at medium or large image size now. > > I knew I should have read that manual!!:-) > > Cheers, Matt > -- Nathan Wajsman Almere, The Netherlands General photography: http://www.nathanfoto.com Seville photography: http://www.fotosevilla.com Stock photography: http://www.alamy.com/search-results.asp?qt=wajsman http://myloupe.com/home/found_photographer.php?photographer=507 Prints for sale: http://www.photodeluge.com