> -----Original Message----- > From: Cotty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >I just can't bring myself to shoot jpeg in camera, as raw > gives you so > >much flexibility wrt white balance and exposure compensation. > > Tom, could you just expand on that? Treat me as a dummy and > spell it out > for me - I think there are plenty on the list who would be > interested in > your experience, me included.
When you shoot jpeg, you're stuck with the white balance set at the time of exposure. You can go back later of course a fiddle with it in pshop, but I find it much easier to use one of the presets in the conversion software. I just shoot in auto WB, and I don't even think about it. If the camera picks the wrong wb, it's very simple to select a different one during conversion. Same with exposure. While it varies quite a bit, you can often save 3 stops under exposed or 1 stop overexposed with a simple button click. So basically I just shoot it like neg film, except instead of trying to avoid underexposure, I try to avoid overexposure. I get it in the ballpark during conversion, FTP to my lab, and they do final corrections, which is what they're paid to do and very good at. Which is pretty much the same way neg film works. If you shoot jps, you need to work more like you would with slide film, and get it nailed right at the time of exposure. I don't have time to do that. I also like the noise reduction that breezebrowser does during conversion. Otherwise I'd have to use Neat Image, which I hate. tv
