Raw Talk

[Lil Chillbil]

Lets talk shooting in raw vs. shooting with .jpg and talk about the pro's and cons. I have been shooting in raw ever since I got my eos and its a pain for using it for web. Because my rig takes a while to process the raw photos I have been thinking about going back to .jpg. 

 

 

either that or buy a 1d mark I just for its naturally small file sizes specifically so I can snap off a few shots and post them to facebook without haveing to convert.

 

[niksuto]

I really thought you were posting Jared Polin's podcast for a second.

I only shoot Raw atm. The reason is that I own cameras on both the Nikon and Canon side, often(with Nikon) I find myself fussing around with settings because I'm not very familiar with the cameras. "Get it right in the camera" I do get it right in camera, but some settings I rather forget because I hate checking my photos on a 5'' LCD which may or may not have been calibrated.

[Lil Chillbil]

I really thought you were posting Jared Polin's podcast for a second.

I only shoot Raw atm. The reason is that I own cameras on both the Nikon and Canon side, often(with Nikon) I find myself fussing around with settings because I'm not very familiar with the cameras. "Get it right in the camera" I do get it right in camera, but some settings I rather forget because I hate checking my photos on a 5'' LCD which may or may not have been calibrated.

 

 

I like Jared Polin's show its awesome I learned a lot 

[CaptainSi]

My advice is to stick with raw always, you can push them so much further in post than a cruddy jpeg. It will also help you learn about photography more, as you'll more drastically see the effects of changes you've made before the shot. On the flip side, shooting in raw can save a lot of shots that would otherwise be unusable which basically lets you be a bad photographer, as long as you know what's up in post.

[Puppet]

I have no idea why anyone would want to shoot JPEG... I would occasionally shoot RAW+JPEG if there is nothing to tether to and need to preview on a mobile device etc.

 

RAW isn't about "correcting" bad exposures, if that's what its getting used for then you are most certainly adding some unwanted noise/artifacts. It's about bypassing your cameras primitive automated way of compressing images and also a massive help in getting rid of things like chromatic aberrations and adjusting lens profiles.

 

Also fine tuning white balances, unless you are setting up a custom white balance for each shot, the presets are often slightly off.

 

A camera has no idea what is good data and bad data in an image, so letting it decide for you based on an algorithm is usually a bad idea.

[Lil Chillbil]

My advice is to stick with raw always, you can push them so much further in post than a cruddy jpeg. It will also help you learn about photography more, as you'll more drastically see the effects of changes you've made before the shot. On the flip side, shooting in raw can save a lot of shots that would otherwise be unusable which basically lets you be a bad photographer, as long as you know what's up in post.

 

 

I have no idea why anyone would want to shoot JPEG... I would occasionally shoot RAW+JPEG if there is nothing to tether to and need to preview on a mobile device etc.

 

RAW isn't about "correcting" bad exposures, if that's what its getting used for then you are most certainly adding some unwanted noise/artifacts. It's about bypassing your cameras primitive automated way of compressing images and also a massive help in getting rid of things like chromatic aberrations and adjusting lens profiles.

 

Also fine tuning white balances, unless you are setting up a custom white balance for each shot, the presets are often slightly off.

 

A camera has no idea what is good data and bad data in an image, so letting it decide for you based on an algorithm is usually a bad idea.

 

Thanks guys I think I really learned something and I think i'll just stick to my rebel and use the money I was going to buy a 10d with and buy a new 55-200mm