To Use RAW or Not

[Digital Matt]

You should have free software from your camera manufacturer.

 

[Alex_B]

Not true, I am afraid... I don't know about Canons, but I know Nikon's NEF format IS compressed... it is just considered "lossless" compression.

not sure if the NIKON compression is lossless, but in principle lossless compression exists. no problem with that.

 

[Alex_B]

You should have free software from your camera manufacturer.

true, the camera manufacturer's software is often not the best workflow-optimised, but regarding image quality it is often excellent

 

[mschroeder]

Yeah I bought the canon 30d and it has software but after seeing the demo for the adobe lightroom it looked amazing. just thought i would see if there are any opensource programs that are similar. I am fine with the canon sofware they sent with the camera, I may just purchase that lightroom, looks like a great tool.

 

[hawee99]

so i'm a little confused. If I were to use the software that came with my camera, I would just do the lighting adjustments there, and then convert to JPEG for any additional changes I wanted to make that the supplied software can't offer? I really wish I could view RAW in 7.0