On 12/15/06 10:27 PM, "Richard Bellavance", <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Second, many people can't be bothered with post-processing their photos. > Yes, that entails tradeoffs and/or limitations in the quality of the > photos. Still, if it's acceptable to them, again, what's it to you ? I am not against anybody here, as there are different people with different level of interest/skill and philosophy. I am basically a jpeg shooter, and I do not feel particularly inferior or superior to anybody because of that. About 70% of my shooting is just like film days, i.e., traveling, landscape and family recording etc. For those, I have a family to share results with, which usually means quick minilab prints. I do not want to bother wasting much of time in front of computer, except some slight tweaking to correct some extremes, if any. They (my family) don't believe that photos be appreciated on monitor :-). Also, I wish to keep record in some durable form. I know storing digital records in CD, DVD and RAID and all that, but majority of my shots is printed by someone else (minilab). Fortunately, I have a prolab (with minilab) close-by and they are excellent. When I know I am out for location shooting for some specific purpose or want to manipulate shots for some special effects, I shoot in RAW as I wish to post-process them and make some nice prints for framing etc. This style served me well in the past and I do not think I will change it any time soon (besides I do shoot film too, 35mm & APS and very rarely 645 these days). I used to delete a lot of digital shots right in camera before even transferring to computer. That was a bad habit. But I usually take fairly deliberate shots. Anyway, people in this list or others are more of enthusiasts, if not pro, and are vastly different from average weekend photographers or hobbyists, and I won't be surprised that the majority (can't quantify) would be those people, and absolutely nothing wrong with it. When set well, jpegs right out of camera are very usable. So, I have absolutely nothing against jpeg shooters, many of whom I know are like that because they are experienced shooters. Ken -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
