At 10:56 PM 4/28/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>At 06:04 PM 4/28/2005, Joel Wilcox wrote:
> >The lovely thing is RAW is easy and very well-supported on the E-1. I
> >really do like it a lot. But I get lazy with it once in a while and have
> >expected the converter to fix my errors, rather than concentrate on using
> >the camera's considerable smarts. My goal is now to get perfect exposures,
> >regardless of format.
> >
> >Joel W.
>
>I believe part of "The Dream" being marketed is the "just do it" (now) and
>it is can be fixed later if it isn't quite right. Perhaps it's usually
>easier with digital but there's little that can be done with a digital file
>that cannot be done in a darkroom. Either way, it's pay now or pay later,
>and with the latter the debt collector comes calling . . . sometimes with
>painfully high interest rates. A couple friends using digital have
>discovered this the hard way . . . spending considerable time fixing a
>critical photograph . . . and [re]learning the lesson that it's *always*
>better to "get it right" in the camera . . . digital or film.
>
>-- John Lind
Amen. Whenever I hear that RAW gives you 4 stops of headroom, I think
about having to set the white point, pull up the curve to bring up the
shadows, then save and go to noiseware to fix the inevitable noise, then go
back to do all the other regular things to finish the photo for
printing. No free lunch.
Joel W.
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