JPEG's suck. The quality simply isn't good enough for what I need. Jens Bladt http://www.jensbladt.dk +45 56 63 77 11 +45 23 43 85 77 Skype: jensbladt248
-----Oprindelig meddelelse----- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af Paul Stenquist Sendt: 2. juli 2006 13:02 Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Emne: Re: Coming Soon - A new K-mount Film Camera Of course you have to edit if you shoot RAW. That's the whole idea of shooting RAW. It's like working with a negative. Don't you think the lab makes adjustments when they print a negative? If you don't want to edit, shoot jpeg. You can adjust your parameters to get results comparable to what you'd get from shooting neg film and dropping it off at a typical mini lab. Paul On Jul 2, 2006, at 3:36 AM, Jens Bladt wrote: > Give me a brake, Cotty, I've been photograping for 40-45 years - > digitally > for the last three.. I do know how to meter. I also know several > digital > photographers who, just like me, underexposes 0.3-0.5 F-stop ALL THE > TIME > in order to avoid burned out highlights. Then comes colour problems, > that > has to be dealt with. I can't really show you a "before and after" > editing > exsample, because I shoot RAW exclusively. Already in the RAW > conversion, > there's some - perhaps 25-50% of the total editing. Don't tell me you > shoot > digital and do not edit. I don't know anybody who does. > > Jens Bladt > http://www.jensbladt.dk > +45 56 63 77 11 > +45 23 43 85 77 > Skype: jensbladt248 > > -----Oprindelig meddelelse----- > Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] vegne af > Aaron > Reynolds > Sendt: 2. juli 2006 03:50 > Til: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Emne: Re: Coming Soon - A new K-mount Film Camera > > > On Jul 1, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Jens Bladt wrote: > >> I don't know about P&S cameras, but my Pentax DSLR's doesn't deliver >> usable >> photographs without editing - they would be pale, unsharp and dull. >> Editing >> is a must. >> In order to avoid to much contrast (lost mid-tones) or burned out high >> lights (Improve dynamics) I set the camera to make rather dull >> pictures. I >> think I have to edit more than 95% of all exposurers in order to get >> decent >> photographs. > > What your problem is, it appears, is your ability to meter. Compare it > to shooting slides, except that you have the ability to control > contrast easily while shooting. Once you know how your camera meters > and how it performs in different contrast situations, you can set it > appropriately. As to sharpness -- if it's always not sharp enough, why > are you not turning the sharpness up? If you're overly concerned about > losing highlight or shadow, you could always bracket if you don't trust > your own judgment. > >> When I use film, the lab takes care of this. I don't believe >> this is the case with digital printing. > > Actually, if you are going to a "regular" minilab, your digital files > are going through the same averaging process that your negatives go > through. If you're having custom prints made, they are not. So, in > fact, you can just send them your dull files. You should try it -- > around here it's cheap as dirt. > >> Digital is slow and very time consuming. But it's VERY, VERY >> affordable! > > Meanwhile, when I shoot with digital professionally, I am doing it > because it's so much faster to turn around the image. Film is slow and > time consuming. Digital is fast fast fast. If you think film is fast > simply because you turn over all control of your image to a lab, you're > not making a valid comparison -- do the same with your digital and see > what happens. > > -Aaron > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: > 06/30/2006 > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: > 06/30/2006 > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: 06/30/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.9.8/380 - Release Date: 06/30/2006 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
