Shooting RAW with 300D

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I'm shooting some RAW photo's with a canon 300D

What is the general opinion on the best / simplest software to use to develop RAW photo's shot with my Camera.. I have tried importing them into lightroom which works fine and I see the image and can do everything I usually can, but unless I am missing something obvious I don't seem to get anything extra from the fact it is a RAW image.

Maybe I'm just being daft..
 
JPG has 256 levels a RAW which is 12bit on your 300D is will have 4096 levels of data
SO if you have to work on it you have more info and will not loss much.
If you photos are 100% with out any need to work on them You will not gain, but as soon as you need to do anything to it RAW is the way to go.
For free you have Canon owns RAW program BUT I like the Photoshop one with CS4 you can do most of your work with it From GF to doge and burning croping and so on
 
Ok so...

Just to re-cap and make sure I understand correctly... IF I am doing my job correctly and getting it right in camera RAW probably doesn't give me any benefits unless I want to be creative etc, but any adjustments I make such as recovering blown highlights, adjusting the exposure etc will loose a lot less information when working on a RAW image than they would in JPG?
 
I've just had a question from a Canon using friend about opening her Canon RAW files in Adobe Bridge so rather than starting a new thread I thought I'd ask in here.

She has a Canon 450D which she says produces CR2 RAW files which she is unable to open in Bridge. She has Photoshop CS3 extended edition. Is she doing anything wrong or are these files just not compatible? Is there a patch that needs to be downloaded?
 
Creed said:
Ok so...

Just to re-cap and make sure I understand correctly... IF I am doing my job correctly and getting it right in camera RAW probably doesn't give me any benefits unless I want to be creative etc, but any adjustments I make such as recovering blown highlights, adjusting the exposure etc will loose a lot less information when working on a RAW image than they would in JPG?
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Spot on ALSO you can decide on things like WLB after
Remember it the computer in the camera V one you have at home.
The one in your camera will do what It wants and throw away what it thinks you do not want.
The one at home will do what you want it to.
 
Chaz Photos said:
Spot on ALSO you can decide on things like WLB after
Remember it the computer in the camera V one you have at home.
The one in your camera will do what It wants and throw away what it thinks you do not want.
The one at home will do what you want it to.
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That's a really good way of putting it, thanks for that
 
Chaz Photos said:
JPG has 256 levels a RAW which is 12bit on your 300D is will have 4096 levels of data
SO if you have to work on it you have more info and will not loss much.
If you photos are 100% with out any need to work on them You will not gain, but as soon as you need to do anything to it RAW is the way to go.
For free you have Canon owns RAW program BUT I like the Photoshop one with CS4 you can do most of your work with it From GF to doge and burning croping and so on
Click to expand...

Jpeg should be 8bit (24bit total)
 
-Rob- said:
I've just had a question from a Canon using friend about opening her Canon RAW files in Adobe Bridge so rather than starting a new thread I thought I'd ask in here.

She has a Canon 450D which she says produces CR2 RAW files which she is unable to open in Bridge. She has Photoshop CS3 extended edition. Is she doing anything wrong or are these files just not compatible? Is there a patch that needs to be downloaded?
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She may need Adobe CameraRaw 4.6 which is the latest version for CS3. more details and download here

I know it supports the 50d but not 100% sure on the 450d
 
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