On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:48:57AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > The real benefit to having the Windoze apps (Nikon or not) to support > > the camera is in being able to load camera (or film scanner) images > > directly into something like Photoshop without having to go through > > any JPEG or other compression, so that you can manipulate raw > > images. > > Note, this only matters if you have set the camera to save things as > RAW format. If the camera is saving JPEGs, the software can't > convert them back into RAW... info has already been lost. > > Why does RAW matter? It is uncompressed and has more bits than a > JPEG (12 bits on my D1x) so you have more range when doing exposure > adjustments and whatnot. >
Some cameras actually compress the raw data BTW. I think Nikon does that since nef (raw) output takes less space then tiff output. The advantage of raw is that you get _all_ the data and not processed data, so you get all the information. You can also reprocess it if a better algorithm comes out later. > There's a program called dcraw which will convert many forms of > camera raw files into standard formats for editing. But it's not > quite as good as the Nikon Capture software, because Capture makes it > very easy to do common things like fix exposure and has cool toys > like DEE which is basically a magic exposure fixer. Nothing you > can't do without capture, but you have to work harder to get there. > There is also a plugin that allows using draw to open the raw files directly in the gimp. That should rival the Nikon capture software. > -- > Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I am the rocks. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
