I got bored, so I played with my camera...
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Originally Posted by enoyskt,Jul 16 2005, 02:44 PM
Is RAW some sort of imaging software to mess around with your photos?
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RAW is the data that comes from your digital sensor, like digital film. It has no non-linear manipulations from the camera and is stored in a lossless format. JPG, the normal mode for most cameras, is compressed (so every time you save in that format your pictures look worse) and can have odd corrections by a camera for things like sharpness and contrast. Those adjustments may look better sometimes but they also mean that you never get access to the actual data that was recorded by the camera. That is, once your camera sharpens an image you lose the unsharp image. So if the image is oversharpened you can never fix it. You're stuck.
RAW images work with just the pixels and all corrections are saved in 3-4k config files so the orginal data is never lost. It's exceptionally cool if you have the processing speed, memory card space, and digital storage for all the large images, but for most casual photographers it's probably overkill. With RAW you can't immediately just email a photo. There is no standard RAW format and no non-photographer can open your files unless you manually export to another format.
RAW images work with just the pixels and all corrections are saved in 3-4k config files so the orginal data is never lost. It's exceptionally cool if you have the processing speed, memory card space, and digital storage for all the large images, but for most casual photographers it's probably overkill. With RAW you can't immediately just email a photo. There is no standard RAW format and no non-photographer can open your files unless you manually export to another format.
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Originally Posted by HunterEz,Jul 16 2005, 05:15 PM
Oops, sorry, I forgot to answer that, all my shots are handheld.
BTW, is this a reflection of the silver car off the black car?