Give it to me raw!!

[Michael Hetrick]

A buddy of mine said I should be downloading my images from my dig cam in raw format. I don't know what this means, do you???

[Diamond Lil]

Hey Mike,
I'm not a pro so will refer you to a neat little article (http://www.dpreview.com/learn/?/key=raw) that gets the point across nicely. It comes from a site that I find a good resource.

[roadhog]

It comes from a site that I find a good resource.

one of the best sites Lil ! detailed tests-reviews-user reviews etc... i use it frequently to 'keep up' :)

[Diamond Lil]

Here is another decent site (http://www.dcviews.com/). Navigate to tutorials and on the bottom of the page you'll find a rich listing of tutorial sites.

[roadhog]

Here is another decent site (http://www.dcviews.com/). Navigate to tutorials and on the bottom of the page you'll find a rich listing of tutorial sites.
thank you !

[Diamond Lil]

You are very welcome.

[Michael Hetrick]

:mad: Hmmmm......my little camera does not offer raw output.

[Diamond Lil]

Mike, I would venture to say that a tremendous number of phenomenal images are produced and shared without RAW output ever being considered.

[Max]

I didn't read the article Mike but raw contains so much more data. When you open a raw image with adobe you can alter the photo with it's own built in recorded data a variety of ways. When I shoot things to work with images for other things I usually take the images in raw. To give you an idea a regular image may be 3mb off the camera while a raw will be about 10mb of data.

[Diamond Lil]

Max, does adobe work with a broad spectrum of RAW formats?

[EZE RIDER]

Hey, I'm learning stuff. I hate when that happens! Thanks for the question and the answers.

[Michael Hetrick]

I read that when you use programs such as Photoshop on the compressed images from the camera that it can produce weird visual artifacts due to the compression algorithm fighting with the algorithm in PS. The article I read said to always Photoshop on raw data.

[Max]

Mike if you have photoshop I'll upload a raw image and let you open it and see what all you can do. It is amazing.

[Max]

Mike here is a raw image off a 1D Mark II camera.

http://www.moviephotoforums.com/images/KG7Q1352.CR2

[Michael Hetrick]

Man, here I go getting hooked on something expensive again. I was down at the camera store today drooling over the 10+ mega pixel big dogs from Nikon and Canon today. Then I started looking at lenses and my nipples got harder than diamonds. I actually put saddlebags on the bike so I can carry a nice camera and binoculars. Planning for the future, don't you know.

[LAVrod]

Man, here I go getting hooked on something expensive again. I was down at the camera store today drooling over the 10+ mega pixel big dogs from Nikon and Canon today. Then I started looking at lenses and my nipples got harder than diamonds. I actually put saddlebags on the bike so I can carry a nice camera and binoculars. Planning for the future, don't you know.

haha, two expensive hobbies we have bikes and cameras. Try BHphotovideo.com or even craigslist

[EZE RIDER]

Digital negatives is another name for a RAW file. I learned that here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format)

[LAVrod]

Raw is good if you have time to edit each one. If not, high res JPGS are better for speed like photojournalism.

[LAVrod]

For what most people need JPG will probably suffice