RAW - Finally converted.

wez130 · 19 Sep 2007 at 10:23

Well, i've always shot in Jpeg for reasons being i never had a large CF card , but even when i got a large CF card i shot in Jpeg for comfort and ease of use, but yesterday, i went out in Newcastle and shot Entirely in RAW for the full day and now i'm shocked at why i didn't earlier, it seems as though processing is MUCH easier from a RAW shot than a Jpeg and my results seem a lot better already (in my view anyway) then they ever were in jpeg, from now on i'm a RAW person

wez130 · 19 Sep 2007 at 10:52

when you shoot jpeg, your camera does some processing for you (white balance etc), add to that that jpeg is lossy format so you lose details from the go (hence the small filesize), with Raw you get basically a digital negative to process completely for yourself. There's a good arcticle in this months outdoor photography magazine.

wez130 · 19 Sep 2007 at 14:42

ffallic said:
I have a question. My FZ7 does not have a raw mode - its either tiff or jpeg. Anyone know if there would be advantages of using the tiff over the jpeg? I know the file sizes will be much larger...

Tiff - advantages, they are lossless so keep 100% detail, disadvantage is they are huge - like 50mb per image, that's roughly 40 shots on a 2 gig card

jpeg - advantage, small file size, disadvantage they are a lossy formayt so lose detail from the image.

wez130 · 19 Sep 2007 at 22:01

lightroom will give you a browser for raw files

wez130 · 20 Sep 2007 at 07:51

robmiller said:
Hardly the only two options, though. (Losslessly) compressed RAWs are about 10-15MB a pop.

his camera can only shoot tiff and jpeg, that's what he was asking.

wez130 · 20 Sep 2007 at 09:35

not me, just the raw shot.

wez130 · 20 Sep 2007 at 12:00

good god, how many shots do you take?
I went walking round Newcastle the other day and took maybe 200 shots, but about 50 of those were for panoramas.