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 p.2 #11 · D300 users do you shoot Raw or JPG and why? | |
Rodolfo Paiz wrote:
It amazes me that I still keep seeing people who are not shooting for a large magazine that needs images as fast as it can possibly get them, and who still bitch, whine, and moan about the extra "work" involved in shooting RAW.
I shoot in 14-bit RAW, with lossless compression, except when frame rate requirements demand (e.g. airshows) demand that I drop down to 12-bit. When I get home, LR2 will copy the images from the card to my storage server, convert each to DNG, rename the file to how I like things, add keywords, and even make a backup to a separate hard disk... all in one step.
If I were ever to need small JPGs right then, it's simple: Ctrl-A to select all, then File --> Export with Preset --> JPGs for email, and then select an output folder. Inside of 6 seconds the conversion has begun, and in a couple of minutes I have a folder full of JPG's. What's there to call work? Plus, those JPGs are now processed from the RAW, using the color profiles of my choice, and saved with my own conversion settings (pixel dimensions, compression factors, etc.). Much better JPGs (meaning, JPGs much more suited to how I want them) than straight out of camera. And, I only have to go through that "tedious" 6-second workflow when I want them, which 99% of the time I don't.
Most of my post work gets done in LR2. Photoshop is opened when necessary, and files that will be printed large and sold to someone get carefully reprocessed in NX2, because I do find that NX2 gives just that little bit better image quality, and people who are paying for my images deserve every little bit of detail and quality I can give them.
There are people who need to shoot JPGs. The aforementioned deadline-bound PJ's is one group, people with ancient computers that bog down with large file sizes are another (but a new and fast computer is $600 to $900, which pales in comparison to the investment many of us have in photo gear), and there are a few others. But those who claim that RAW is too much extra work, either just don't know how to do it properly or place a much lower value on image quality than I do.
I'm sure I'll get some offended responses, and of course everyone has a right to their own opinion. To each his own, of course. But you asked for opinions, and that's mine.  ...Show more →
I guess my question on RAW before making the leap of faith is this. Isn't it true that the whole point of RAW is so that you can custom process individual photos? If you are simply batch processing all your photos with LR2 or NX2, would the IQ be still superior to D300's JPG?
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