RAW mRAW sRAW 7D, what do you use?

Kineyas wrote in post #9691612
I made a mistake of using mRAW once... I rely on Lightroom 99% for my personal work and it gives me an error when I try to load mRAW. I've been using RAW files since then... and all my 16gb CF cards.

That's odd -- what version of LR and of ACR are you using?

I go or the full RAW. You can make a file smaller without quality loss, but making it larger is another story. I bought a Delkin Firewire 800 card reader, so its faster than USB 2. That fastest method for me thus far is to view the RAW files in bridge, then open then in Adobe Camera RAW. I use to use preview on the mac before opening the RAW, but its too slow with the 20-25MB RAW files.

I tried MRAW in the early days when I had my 7D just to see what it was like, I had a sparrowhawk land in my garden, I had no time to change but wonder what it would have looked like at full RAW size, you are always left wondering what might have been. The same question would arise if shooting JPEG for convenience. So unless you get caught out on a shoot and need to save card space I would go for Max possible options every time.

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I'd naturally use the highest quality possible. But anything that fails to reach my standard gets sent to the bin. I don't post-process anything that I am not 100% sure of.

Kineyas wrote in post #9691612
I made a mistake of using mRAW once... I rely on Lightroom 99% for my personal work and it gives me an error when I try to load mRAW. I've been using RAW files since then... and all my 16gb CF cards.

you can fix that by updating your program to LR 2.6. i had the same issue. i can now import mraw and sraw,,,,,,,but im shooting full raw files most of the time.

I have been using zoombrowser for years. I would upload al my shots, and review them and rate them (with the stars), so I could then delete the images I didn't want to keep. NOW, the previewer won't even allow me to preview the raw images...I don't know if it's shear size or what. But it's a pain.

I probably should try bridge as recommended too....

Andy,

DPP offers a basic rating system which will allow you to do what you previously did in Zoombrowser.

I haven't used DPP. I will give it a shot. Thanks for the recommendation.

There's no way to view the image and rate it like in ZB?

I just used mRAW for over 1000+ images today because the first 500+ shots I took were in FullRAW. I only have 2x16GB cards and I feared that I would use up both cards and wont be able to take any more photos.

So I switched to mRAW and I am kinda regretting it because I didn't really save a lot of space at all. I just finished importing all my photos into lighroom and all of the images that were captured in mRAW are much larger or equally as large (as far as file size goes) as the FullRAW images.

So, I will not be shooting in mRAW for now, although I believe the number of burst I was able to capture jumped by about 4-6 more frames, from 18-24 without buffering. I guess that was a plus. I have yet to fully investigate the images I captured today. I probably wont get to them till next week or so Lots of school work. Spent the entire day shooting a track meet.

I have read somewhere that shooting in sRAW in higher ISO's will reduce the noise in the pictures.

Combatmedic870 wrote in post #10016150
I have read somewhere that shooting in sRAW in higher ISO's will reduce the noise in the pictures.

Not any more than downscaling the image would.