OK, I'm convinced - RAW is the way to go!

[Cody21]

After a lot of reading, you guys have finally convinced me that RAW is the way to go. Although I will be losing available space on my card, like you've said, the PP control (in CS2) that it gives me is huge! Fortunately I have (2) 1GB cards ... :)


Thanks for getting me to see the light, so to speak.

[scot079]

For WB/exposure tweaks...it's definitely the way to go. Memory is cheap, might as well buy more CF.

[Shooting]

My condolences..

just kidding, if you like it..embrace it and go with it..before you commit fully, try CS3 and process jpegs in the raw editor...you may change your mind again.

[T.D.]

I think you've made a good decision. You're going to want to get some more (bigger) cards, though. :)

[DLInspire]

So when you shoot RAW..you can adjust exposure?

Does this open up opportunity to save several images in different exposures to get those cool HDR effects?

[Cody21]

My condolences..

just kidding, if you like it..embrace it and go with it..before you commit fully, try CS3 and process jpegs in the raw editor...you may change your mind again.

Thanks .. :-)

I snapped a few this morning in both RAW & JPEG ... clearly the PP for RAW is soooo much more powerful. I was really able to tweak up some very simple pics. .... doing things I was unable to previously do with JPEG images.

[Stime187]

So when you shoot RAW..you can adjust exposure?

Does this open up opportunity to save several images in different exposures to get those cool HDR effects?

You can tweak the exposure afterwards, but a missed exposure is still a missed exposure and any attempt to save it will certainly not be near as good as getting it right in the field. The big thing for me is the ability to adjust the white balance after the fact to get it exactly right.

As for saving a different exposures, some do that and have good results, but that will not be the case for most. Those that can make it work really know what they're doing and usually only do it twice with a good exposure to start with. They convert/process one file for the shadows then do one for the highlights and blend them

I've personally never done nor needed to do that. Hope that helps.

- Scott

[tzalman]

So when you shoot RAW..you can adjust exposure?

Does this open up opportunity to save several images in different exposures to get those cool HDR effects?
It opens the opportunity to get pseudo-HDR effects, but no matter how much you shove the Exposure slider around you can't cause the photo to contain more data than the camera captured. A 16 bit tif can retain all that data, if you are careful not to clip it during the conversion, so the same pseudo-HDR effect can be obtained from a single conversion.

[E-Dude]

When I first experimented with RAW, I set the camera to RAW + JPEG. Then I was worried about the limited storage of my cards.

When I set the camera to RAW (without JPEG) I considered that saving space.

[Stime187]

Personally, I always shoot RAW + JPEG.

[Subyn00by]

<~~~ 4gig card, I like shooting in raw, but when I've gotta just take a whole junk load of pics, I go with JPEG.

[Glenn NK]

Do you mean to say that my 30D will take JPEG images. Damn.;)

[gooble]

I'd get some more memory. 4GB cards start at $15. It's not like they're expensive.