I agree. But there are situations where jpeg is called for. For example, where the money doesn't justify shooting RAW, and you have to produce a lot of work. My VR client doesn't want photographers shooting RAW. The images are used low-res, time is critical, and money is tight. But for my own work, for weddings and for all other commercial clients, I shoot RAW exclusively. It is like having a negative to work with. Even better. For my first 20,000 digital frames, I never shot a jpeg. But when the job calls for jpegs, I'll shoot jpegs. I've been surprised at the quality that's possible when color temp is set manually and exposures are exact.

I most minded solitary time in the darkroom when I had to produce fifty prints for a magazine article that had to ship Monday morning. If I was playing with my own stuff, I enjoyed it. But I prefer the computer to the chemicals for any type of work.
Paul

PS: I have some very nice enlarger lenses that I'd be happy to sell to a list film lover.


On Feb 3, 2009, at 11:18 PM, Larry Colen wrote:

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 09:37:30PM -0600, Charles Robinson wrote:
# On Feb 3, 2009, at 21:30, Stan Halpin wrote:
# > But the whole business was very solitary, asocial.  I don't miss
# >that.
# >
#
# You make a good point. I did all of my stuff completely alone - less
# than fun that way.

I must be odd, I never did mind solitary time in the darkroom. I had
the photos to occupy my mind.

At to RAW vs. JPEG, my .sig over on dpreview is:
Shooting in JPEG is like taking your roll of film to the store to be
processed, and when you get your prints, throwing away the negatives.


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