> > From: "William Robb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2007/05/16 Wed PM 01:26:56 GMT > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Amazon buys dpreview.com > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "mike wilson" > Subject: Re: Amazon buys dpreview.com > > > > >> I think the average DSLR user does shoot .jpg. Unless one is *really* > >> serious, the 'good enough' of .jpgs is pretty good for most people. I'd > >> venture to say that most DSLR users still don't want take the time to > >> post > >> process their images like many here on this list do. > > > > Three other members of my family have now bought DSLRs. I had to explain > > to two of them what RAW files were and what they had to do to process and > > print them. They both decided it was too much trouble. The other had > > already come to that decision by himself. Two other acquaintances with > > DSLRs shoot exclusively JPG. All but one of them I expect will return to > > compacts in the future. None of the casual photographers I have spoken to > > at events and places have ever been using RAW. Many of them have not > > known what RAW files are. > > The pro guys I deal with are mostly shooting jpg. The exceptions are when > they feel the need for the extra WB control, although even then, they aren't > doing much beyond using the default conversion to jpg. >
_Efficient_ control freakery. Know the parameters of the situation you are photographing and you don't need great leeway capability in your post-processing. Bean counting at its best. ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
