RAW vs JPG
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Cheers Terry & Wayne
To be honest though, having to rely on another program to do the job would actually draw out the workflow too much, as is, everything is done from Lightroom and when batching a few hundred or even thousands of files, having to involve another program would overly complicate things for me.
If I were going to rely on another program, it would be NX2 (which I have) as it reads the xmp from a nef anyway, the problem is it does not suit me at all.
Originally I thought that shooting both would be a pain, but it really doesn't add any stress or hassle to my workflow thanks to the LR engine, just a few extra MB at the most.
Give it a try, it's not like photoshop or lightroom, it's really simple and quick, I just have to right click on the raw images, then this box opens, I just choose extract and a new folder appears with the jpegs in it (once you have it set up)
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Give it a try, it's not like photoshop or lightroom, it's really simple and quick, I just have to right click on the raw images, then this box opens, I just choose extract and a new folder appears with the jpegs in it (once you have it set up)
Cheers very much mate
I'll give that a whirl.Give it a try, it's not like photoshop or lightroom, it's really simple and quick, I just have to right click on the raw images, then this box opens, I just choose extract and a new folder appears with the jpegs in it (once you have it set up)
That sounds as though it is creating a jpg from the raw rather than extracting one that's already in it and that means that it is doing the processing rather than the camera or your chosen PP app.
Can you see any processing occurring between the raw and the jpg that it creates?
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I shoot raw, but use import presets in Lightroom to do a lot of what the camera processing would do, although I must say I haven't tried comparing a raw to a camera JPEG on my mk2 yet...
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It clearly says extract embedded jpeg from raw on the website, I just tested it again on a Canon set to B+W custom setting (I haven't a nikon handy where I am) and the jpeg shows the B+W custom setting, the raw is in full colour of course.
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I shoot in both (restricted to JPG Basic + RAW combination on my camera), then when I've got back home after a shoot I do a quick run through and anything thats anything less than spectacular (or workable), delete the RAW image for it.
One thing I noticed about shoooting with RAW combination is that my photo collection very quickly rose from the level it was a year ago (about 12-15GB) to 45GB, so if you're low on space, or funny about the size of your collection, keep tabs on how many RAW pics you're keeping.
One thing I noticed about shoooting with RAW combination is that my photo collection very quickly rose from the level it was a year ago (about 12-15GB) to 45GB, so if you're low on space, or funny about the size of your collection, keep tabs on how many RAW pics you're keeping.
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I shoot jpeg but need to start shooting raw. Tend to keep it in jpg for family type shots, but need to remember to change it to raw+jpg for the more 'serious' shots.
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Bad pictures always remain Bad.
Raw gets the best out of excellent pictures.
It is so quick to process I can not imagine not doing it.
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I cannot remember the last time it took me a full day without sleep to process a set of images!!!
Seriously, raw isn't a get-out-of-jail card; it's a process that allows the photographer, as Terrywoodenpic says, to get more from the data to further enhance a good shot. You can process raw files all day but if they're a bag of rubbish they'll still be a bag of rubbish at the end of the processing.
I'm still amazed that there's a common misnoma that because raw files contain more info they are harder and more time consuming to process. I'd rather have all my processing options available on one screen (as with LR and Aperture) than have to navigate loads of drop-down menus, as you have to when you're processing jpegs and tiffs through Photoshop. Even if you have an action set up to do all that, you're saving time but eery image is getting the same treatment, which isn't always desirable.
The repro department at my place are suckers for a good action, much to the chagrin of every editor and photographer at the place. We take time getting the right shot in sometimes very difficult conditions (i't's no fun in the middle of winter when it's snowing) so we can illustrate a point clearly and with panache, only for repro monkey to press an action in between their ebay browsing which adds a stupid amount of shadow/highlight filter and oversharpening. They are totally anti-raw but I find it very odd how they have jpeg prcessing ingrained in them because they seem to think it's easy.
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Anyone who takes that long to process raw files must be taking really chronic photos to begin with. Shooting raw allows you to get the best out of images, it's not an "image rescue" format.
The analogy I've always used is the film processing one:
raw - Taking the film and processing it yourself in your own darkroom.
jpeg - Taking the film to Boots and getting £5 and hour Fred to put them through a machine that processes them for you.
That has nothing to do with file format, but everything to do with camera skill. Using raw gives the best possible opportunity to recover detail in highlight/shadow and work your camera to its full technical specification. Bad pictures, is a biomass problem, not a file problem. jpeg throws half or even more of what your camera is capable of, away.
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thats how i feel
and reading about newspapers and magazines shooing jpeg and not even having mostly the ability to process raw i dont feel so alone.
that was on nikon cafe...
http://www.nikoncafe.com/vforums/showthread.php?t=241138