Shooting RAW vs Raw other and JPG conv

[Ysarex]

I am really at the very beginning of digital photography. I am using a Canon 50 d since it fit the budget. It is so heavy it reminds me of my old, heavy film camera. It feels like a big learning curve for me right now. Excited to move forward

Some reading: notes

Joe

 

[Soocom1]

I am really at the very beginning of digital photography. I am using a Canon 50 d since it fit the budget. It is so heavy it reminds me of my old, heavy film camera. It feels like a big learning curve for me right now. Excited to move forward

No worries.
My 1Ds has alot of features I still dont use of fully understand and I have had that camera for 10 years now.

The 50D is not as fancy as some of the newer models but does the job well.
The Canon site and several other sites has alot of good info on RAW v Jpeg. The biggest advantage is that as previously stated, the RAW is easier to manipulate while in RAW form and copied over to work. (Rule of thumb, never dump the original RAW file. Always copy it).

The Digital Photo Pro program does a great deal of post proc. on its own and photoshop will help greatly.
A JPEG will be somewhat limited and is compressed with a lossy aspect.

 

[Richard Hutchings]

This may not be relevant, but one thing not mentioned here, is that when you're saving both raw and jpeg, the jpeg doesn't need to be the largest size. I keep mine set to the smallest for sharing and I wish there was even a smaller setting for jpegs.

 

[Derrel]

I am really at the very beginning of digital photography. I am using a Canon 50 d since it fit the budget. It is so heavy it reminds me of my old, heavy film camera. It feels like a big learning curve for me right now. Excited to move forward

Some reading: notes

Joe

http://photojoes.net/class_notes/chapter01.html
http://photojoes.net/class_notes/chapter02.html
http://photojoes.net/class_notes/chapter03.html
http://photojoes.net/class_notes/chapter04.html
http://photojoes.net/class_notes/chapter05.html

Some very good, clear, simple written instruction!

 

[Grandpa Ron]

I played with RAW images because it was a feature on my new camera. They were very large files.

While it is true what you can get down to the nut and bolts of the photo for some really creative photography. I am too much of an "as shot" fan. I just do not find much pleasure in extensive post processing.

I will admit the exposure correction and color enhancement features are nice, as is the conversion to black and white. But the true advantages of RAW, I leave too the hands of today's the photo artists. They do remarkable work.

 

[Ysarex]

I am really at the very beginning of digital photography. I am using a Canon 50 d since it fit the budget. It is so heavy it reminds me of my old, heavy film camera. It feels like a big learning curve for me right now. Excited to move forward

Some reading: notes

Joe

http://photojoes.net/class_notes/chapter01.html
http://photojoes.net/class_notes/chapter02.html
http://photojoes.net/class_notes/chapter03.html
http://photojoes.net/class_notes/chapter04.html
http://photojoes.net/class_notes/chapter05.html

Some very good, clear, simple written instruction!

Thank you -- I'm flattered.

Joe

 

[Derrel]

I played with RAW images because it was a feature on my new camera. They were very large files.

While it is true what you can get down to the nut and bolts of the photo for some really creative photography. I am too much of an "as shot" fan. I just do not find much pleasure in extensive post processing.

I will admit the exposure correction and color enhancement features are nice, as is the conversion to black and white. But the true advantages of RAW, I leave too the hands of today's the photo artists. They do remarkable work.

If were given a scenario in which I could apply JUST ONE correction to each raw file, I think a quick CURVES adjustment would be my choice about 90% of the time.

 

[Derrel]

This may not be relevant, but one thing not mentioned here, is that when you're saving both raw and jpeg, the jpeg doesn't need to be the largest size. I keep mine set to the smallest for sharing and I wish there was even a smaller setting for jpegs.

There are two JPEG "size-related" settings, or on some cameras, three settings, which can be user-selected
1- SIZE, in pixels, described as width x height or height x width, in pixels. Sometimes referred to as MegaPixel count. This preference is usually referred to something like Large/Med/Small, or numerically such as 12 MP-6MP-3MP, on for example a 12 MP sensor camera.
2-Compression or Quality, usually referred to as something like Fine-Medium-Low ( with Fine being the least-compressed,and LOW being the MOST-compressed
3- Max Quality or EQUAL SIZE--Max Quality allows JPEG size be determined by the amount of subject detail vs EQUAL creating all JPEGs at more-or-less equal pixel count, regardless of subject detail, such as, say, 944 Kb per image., or 1.2 Mb. per JPEG created,etc.

 

[ac12]

I shoot my own personal stuff in RAW, to give me the ability to salvage images that would be difficult to salvage in JPG.

BUT, I do NOT shoot RAW for my high school sport pictures. There are just TOO MANY images to deal with, so I just shoot those in JPG, and live with it. I will shoot from 200-600 shots for a single game. Some are easy throw outs, but the edit process is still a LOT of work even in JPG. I don't need to add to the work by adding a RAW to JPG conversion into the workflow.

For selected shoots I will shoot RAW. But the image count is manageable.

One option is to shoot in RAW + JPG.
Use the JPG for most of your work, and RAW when you need to fix stuff that you can't do in JPG.
But that is more files to manage.