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I'm not sure what to do and switch to RAW. Anyone had experience shooting RAW with sony a700? If so what's the best settings?
To shoot RAW or not with Sony a700?
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Always shoot RAW, unless the pics are unimportant to you.
I use cRAW on my A700 rather than RAW, as the files are a bit smaller and there is no loss of quality.
The main setting to remember is DRO OFF - since DRO only affects JPeg. Note that the camera does still create a jPeg for you - there is a low res one embedded in the RAW file for preview purposes, so if you leave DRO on all it does is mislead on the preview, and slow the camera down (as DRO is processor hungry).
If you haven't got a copy already also consider getting LightRoom 3 - it makes handling RAW files much simpler.
The main setting to remember is DRO OFF - since DRO only affects JPeg. Note that the camera does still create a jPeg for you - there is a low res one embedded in the RAW file for preview purposes, so if you leave DRO on all it does is mislead on the preview, and slow the camera down (as DRO is processor hungry).
If you haven't got a copy already also consider getting LightRoom 3 - it makes handling RAW files much simpler.
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However, if you have DRO on & use IDC for RAW development then IDC will pickup the encoded settings & use that as the starting point.
OP, what are your current settings, what type of stuff do you shoot & what do you think RAW will give you that you aren't currently getting (i.e. what aren't you happy with)?
To shoot raw or not? The question is this, would you give your undeveloped film to a blind man to process then print then shred your negative? This is in effect what you do if you don't shoot raw, you leave it up to your camera to decide on all aspects of the output then allow it to throw the 'neg' in the bin!
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Yes, aside from motorsport, everything I shoot is in RAW and it was when I was using the A700 as my main camera.
A lot of the camera settings are irrelevant when shooting RAW as they are only there to control what the camera does when it converts the RAW to jpg internally.