Understanding RAW

[Big Mike]

I've recently come across this informative explanation of RAW vs JPEG. I haven't read it all yet but from what I have read...it's easy to understand and well written.

http://ronbigelow.com/articles/raw/raw.htm

 

[Meysha]

Great artical Mike.

Although the last section where it talks about stops and colours is very very confusing. I didn't udnerstand what the hell he was talking about until that last table comparing jpeg and raw came up. I still don't get what he's talking about though with this 5 stop things and saying that highlights have over 2000 colours and shadows only have 256. hmmm....ok I think I get it now.... just when I wrote that.

But it doesn't make sense to me that highlights can have more colours than mid tones.

Meh, but I don't really care... coz I'm converted to raw. I just love how much more flexible it is and how forgiving it is with the exposure.

 

[Ghoste]

I saw a bunch of math.. So I stopped reading.. lol, I'm to tired, I'll read it tomorrow. Thanks though, I was actually looking for something like that to find out about RAW.

 

[vonnagy]

'tis a good find Big Mike,
agree thats its a bit techie, but i was able to learn some new stuff from it myself!

 

[mentos_007]

hmm thanks vonnagy for finding this for me great article - thanks Big Mike!