Re: Nikon D100 'Raw'
Re: Nikon D100 'Raw'
- Subject: Re: Nikon D100 'Raw'
- From: Sam Landry <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2003 00:07:25 -0700
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From: Roger Breton <email@hidden>
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Subject: Nikon D100 'Raw'
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Hi Roger,
My take on the Raw format is that you could save a image along with a
group of images that has a capture of a gray card, white balance shot or
color target to use later when you have a calibrated environment to
apply good judgement with. Let's face it, most digital photography is
shot in the blind environment of a tiny LCD screen. Some isolated cases
you may be lucky enough to have a mobile laptop studio with a controlled
light environment to view your shots in. This is not likely.
I am under the understanding that the files that are saved as raw are
the original video captures in the native format of the camera with
whatever special sauce compression the engineers developed for that
camera. I am impressed with the software control of these files after
their initial recording. I am also impressed with the size of these
files that contain lots of latitude for correction.
One thing that holds the raw format down is that they are larger and
somewhat slower then there compressed counterparts. These files are also
slower to work with through any workflow as well. I am sad to say that
the RAW format is really under used for this reason.
My hope is that the industry catches up with technology before we are
all stuck with the perils of large Jpeg compressed archives.
Regards
Sam Landry
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