RAW - Finally converted.

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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 :D
 
I only shoot RAW as well, just for the simple fact that if I forget to change my whitebalance I can change it in RAW latre like I was actually there. :D

Other than that, yeah - it's just better to work with.
 
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.
 
Dont think I've ever shot in jpeg. All ways shot in RAW, just so much easier.
Especially the way Capture NX handles NEF's. Granted i only get around 400pics on a 4gb card in RAW as opposed to 1,900 jpgs!
 
What about if you was to shoot 300-400 shots at a motor racing meeting ? Say something like Formula1 or Rally racing ? Would you still shoot RAW and take allot of time processing all the images or just process a select few favourites?

I would like to know as im in the middle of deciding what to do :)
 
I shoot int raw all the time, then convert to tiff for stuff I send off, most places like 50MB files with abobeRGB so JPEG is out of the question. I usually take 10-15 2GB flash cards with me.
 
Ry@n said:
What about if you was to shoot 300-400 shots at a motor racing meeting ? Say something like Formula1 or Rally racing ? Would you still shoot RAW and take allot of time processing all the images or just process a select few favourites?

I would like to know as im in the middle of deciding what to do :)
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Did that for the BSB at Oulton Park. Shot in raw and came home with around 660 shots on 2 cards. Though i'd actually shot around 750 frames that day, but went through the pics while i was there.
Took about 2 days to go through them all, ended up with around 65 keepers out of that.
Thing is, it got easier to process as i went on.
 
Shoei said:
Did that for the BSB at Oulton Park. Shot in raw and came home with around 660 shots on 2 cards. Though i'd actually shot around 750 frames that day, but went through the pics while i was there.
Took about 2 days to go through them all, ended up with around 65 keepers out of that.
Thing is, it got easier to process as i went on.
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you go through each shot one at a time ?
 
Shoei said:
Did that for the BSB at Oulton Park. Shot in raw and came home with around 660 shots on 2 cards. Though i'd actually shot around 750 frames that day, but went through the pics while i was there.
Took about 2 days to go through them all, ended up with around 65 keepers out of that.
Thing is, it got easier to process as i went on.
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thats what i do, have always shot in raw. take 2 cards and delete OOF etc on the fly, then come home and look at all of them in adobe bridge. from there i use a voting system where i flag which ones i would like to keep and delete the non keepers, then the same again flagging which ones im going to process. you can see better on a monitor which are the better shots and have least problems if any. i think also if your a beginner like myself, sometimes raw can save a good shot, that said I would 'never' rely on raw, thats not helping myself at all.
 
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...
 
Paulus said:
you go through each shot one at a time ?
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Yep, quick run through in NX to flag em as good, maybe or bad. Which sorts em out.
The go through the good ones first, then the maybe's.
As mentioned, OOF/Bad framing get binned on the camera.
Then its a case of sit down with a bottle of wine and go through the rest ;)
ViewNX will make things a lot easier now, since the rating system in ViewNX carries over to Capture NX.
 
Helium_Junkie said:
But all these software cost lots :(
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ViewNX is a freebie from Nikon to replace picture project.
CaptureNX costs, but nothing else deals with Nikon NEF's as well as CaptureNX and £120 isnt too bad compared to CS2/CS3.
Still think NX should be free with Nikon dSLR's though.
 
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...
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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.
 
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