AaronBentley

Yeah I'm only joking when I say get it fixed, I'm not on the hate train lol But also to note it has been in a few of their videos now, so should of been picked up already.

As you can see in this picture, linus is trolling us and the internet by even pointing out the dust spot on the video's but continues not to clean it. Why linus why do that to us, please clean your sensor!!!! That will be all. Aaron P.S Just so people know this is a joke

Thank you for that very detailed post about your experience. I also agree with what you said about the final image not the data, that is all that matters at the end of the day.

It is true you lose some information when converting, but nothing that would damage your image, or that is what I have been lead to believe. If you've experienced something difference, please share as I would love to hear :D

I agree with you in the fact that its down to everyone's preferences, Their is no correct answer, I was only curious to what people use and why :D

Lol, Quick witted you are.

Lol, Try some of your famous Tequila, I personally prefer this to coffee

Thanks for the information, I have a Canon Powershot which I love to use along side my DSLR and the one thing thats always annoyed me with that it don't support RAW, I am going to look into doing this now. Thank you for that.

Hi Pedro, With RAW you get two separate files for one photo, not DNG.

What point and shoot camera do you use? That sounds amazing to be able to do that and was something I didn't know was possible, would love to hear more.

Great point and thanks for replying, I don't really see adobe dropping off any point soon and can only see more programs using the DNG file format in future because of its success. Did you know you can convert DNG files back to RAW?

Correct me if I'm wrong but I couldn't see where you said what camera you will be using? I use to have this tripod when I had a canon 1100d and it was stable enough for me to get some nice night time shots with long exposures outside sometimes in the wind, so should be ok if you have a light camera. If you don't mind spending a little more I would recommend this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Manfrotto-MKCOMPACTLT-BK-Compact-Light-tripod/dp/B00K0P022Q/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1454254747&sr=1-2&keywords=manfrotto+tripod It will be a lot more solid and will be of a better build quality. Regards Aaron

Good afternoon all, I would like to start a discussion on DNG and RAW formats. Now for you that don't know what these are then you're probably in the wrong section of this forum, but I will go on and explain in short what they are. RAW is a file format that camera's use to store all the data recorded by the sensor when you take a picture. The benefit of this is that when you use a format like JPEG you get a compressed imaged stored on your device/card which means you loss some of the data which once you import onto the computer makes the image harder to edit as sometimes certain area's may be too dark or too light and the data you need is no longer available. That in short is what RAW is. DNG also is a file format but this is one that adobe use and not your camera itself. After you have taken your picture with your camera in its RAW state, you can import this photo onto your computer using a software like Adobe Lightroom, when importing you can convert your RAW file to DNG. In doing this you shrink the size of the file normally around 10%. It also combines all your XMP data into the file and doesn't require a separate file to handle all your metadata. Now onto the point of this discussion, What file type do you prefer and why? I use DNG, after using Lightroom for around 2 years and loving the program, I found that my RAW files took up a lot of space on my hard drive, not only that but I had XMP files for all/most of my pictures as I was always doing editing and whenever I wanted to send the file to a friend, I would have to make sure to send both files which is rather annoying. After trying out DNG for a while I decided to convert all my RAW files into DNG. I saved on lots of space on my hard drive and now when I want to send a file its a lot easier. I know there is myths out there saying you loss some of the image quality and that's why the file size is smaller, but since using the format I have not noticed any decrease in image quality. Please join the discussion as I am curious to hear what people think. Regards Aaron

Is it really, I looked at that microphone and thought it couldn't be as it was far to cheap to be something they use, well that guess to show then, sometimes the best stuff isn't the most expensive :P Thanks everyone. Regards Aaron

Would just like to say thank you to all the hard work thats gone into the new look of the website/forum. The old white theme use to hurt my eyes when I was reading late at night and often found myself turning down my monitor brightness which was kind of annoying, hopefully this new night theme will help with that. Regards Aaron