probably a dumb question,but here goes......

stan the man

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okay....i shoot in RAW and then convert to JPEG after adjusting exposure,contrast,saturation etc etc..so would i be right in saying that i then have both the original RAW file and a JPEG of each shot taken?

if this is correct,do you still save the RAW file after processing and are happy with the result,or do you delete it/them to free up space on your hard drive?

i hope this makes sense to you...

now waits for barrage of abuse..lol
 
stan the man said:
..so would i be right in saying that i then have both the original RAW file and a JPEG of each shot taken?
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Yes indeedy, you would be right!

stan the man said:
if this is correct,do you still save the RAW file after processing and are happy with the result,or do you delete it/them to free up space on your hard drive?
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I don't bin the RAW's, I archive them to DVD's and stick them in a box before deleting them off the HD... never know when I might need them!
 
Hi stan. Yeah I always keep my raws. On many occasion, I've gone back to old files and reprocessed, especially as I've learned new techniques. In fact, on more than one occasion, I've ended up processing a file which I had originally rejected as I have been able to improve it since learning better techniques.
 
I always process my raw files, and save them (without any sharpening) as tiffs.
I then delete the raw files and save the tiffs mirrored across 2 drives (1 internal/1 x external)
 
okay,cheers guys 'n' gals...looks like i'll be keeping them then ;).i thought it's what you might all say,but thought i would ask anyway :D.i have a 750 gig external hard drive which my future son in law got me for chrimbo,so i suppose it's about time i connected up to my puter :bonk:.also,i have a 160 gig portable jobbie...would it be worth backing up my files on there too?
 
Les McLean said:
I always process my raw files, and save them (without any sharpening) as tiffs.
I then delete the raw files and save the tiffs mirrored across 2 drives (1 internal/1 x external)
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At the risk of hijacking the thread, and asking a dumb question, what is the reason for converting from raw to tiff and then saving the image in tiff format rather than raw?
 
TIF is an industry standard, non compressed, image format that is likely to be around for a long time. In other words you will have a TIF file you can go back to work on in a few years with any imaging program but in order to work on the RAW file you will need to keep a copy of a program that recognises the particular type - and if we're talking 10 years it is not going to be so easy.
 
What kind of support is there for .DNG though outside the Adobe products? I only ask becuse it's an interesting idea nd I haven't considered it.
 
AndyB said:
What kind of support is there for .DNG though outside the Adobe products? I only ask becuse it's an interesting idea nd I haven't considered it.
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Not sure mate. Adobe have been pushing for ages for 'the industry' to adopt it as a standard. Which makes sense. But of course everyone wants it their own way.

As I said above, I just store my CR2 files at the moment. I should probably look into some alternatives though.
 
nigpd said:
At the risk of hijacking the thread, and asking a dumb question, what is the reason for converting from raw to tiff and then saving the image in tiff format rather than raw?
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Andyb has it spot on in his reply, I have tiff files from 7 years ago (canon 10D) that I can open quite easily.

Also, I spend a long time getting my final image as good as I can get it, saving just the raw file would would lose all the PP I'd done, although I could save (and possibly should) both the TIF and raw?
 
Thats very true. In which case TIF might be better until it's sorted. I tend to Keep a set of RAW, a set of TIF and a low res JPG set as an index because it's faster to locate a picture in an explorer window that way.
 
I don't imagine RAW files are evolving that much. The difference between a 10D RAW file & a 5D mkII RAW file is probably just in the number of pixels, perhaps in the colour depth. It shouldn't be hard at all for programs to accommodate older RAW files - they're probably practically identical between old & new cameras.
 
stan the man said:
okay,cheers guys 'n' gals...looks like i'll be keeping them then ;).i thought it's what you might all say,but thought i would ask anyway :D.i have a 750 gig external hard drive which my future son in law got me for chrimbo,so i suppose it's about time i connected up to my puter :bonk:.also,i have a 160 gig portable jobbie...would it be worth backing up my files on there too?
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Yes it would Stan, it's good practice to copy your 'keepers' at least once (whichever format they are in) in case of a hard drive crash/dvd corruption etc.

I use a fee program called allways sync , which automatically backs up my 'keepers' from one internal drive to an external drive every day, so I always have at least 2 copies of my best images.

http://allwaysync.com

There are plenty of other sync type programs that work just as well, it's just I'm comfortable with this one.
 
Think of your RAW files as your negs so KEEP all the ones you want.
Save your JPGs in two folders one sized for printing and one for web
All my RAW are saved in date folders and then the JPG folders are in side this.
Remember to tag your keywords makes it easy to find photos at a later date
Oh and keep a back up on some other device if you cant afford to loos them.

DNG might become the standard in place of all the different RAW formats I think there is some cameras that will save as DNG.
RAW is not a file type it stands for Raw data
 
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