Garbz
No longer a newbie, moving up!
- Joined
- Oct 26, 2003
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- Brisbane, Australia
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- Can others edit my Photos
- Photos NOT OK to edit
Taking Ben's original analogy in the studio while working on the sound and adding various effects, mixing, turning knobs, you are often working with PCM audio encoded many times higher than CD and sometimes even DVD-A quality. But in the end when the final gets put on iTunes or something else that uses some compressed form it is often perfectly acceptable for "archival" purposes.
Even though I shoot in RAW the last step of my work flow is to batch convert all my images to Quality 11 JPEGs. The reason being the same as I don't mind using 256+kbps MP3s even though most people who know me consider me an audiophile. The fact is I simply can not tell the difference between a high bitrate mp3 and a CD, just the same as I can not tell the difference between a high quality JPEG and a RAW file.
Even though I shoot in RAW the last step of my work flow is to batch convert all my images to Quality 11 JPEGs. The reason being the same as I don't mind using 256+kbps MP3s even though most people who know me consider me an audiophile. The fact is I simply can not tell the difference between a high bitrate mp3 and a CD, just the same as I can not tell the difference between a high quality JPEG and a RAW file.