nikn
Medlem
Hoppas det är ok att jag skriver på knagglig engelska, har postat det här på dpreview och lägger en kopia här. Jag är verkligen sugen på att se exempel med RAW vs. JPEG där RAW ser bättre ut! Tack på förhand
(Please excuse me for my bad english spelling, grammar....)
I have used Canon 300D, 350D, 400D and now for a few weeks, the 40D. Almost always I find myself using JPEG, but sometimes I do some experiments with RAW.
I have never found RAW to have better picture quality to my eyes, I've followed these forums and seen endless examples of JPEG and RAW pictures. Good photos always look good regardless of format to my eyes (considering proper exposure, good sharpening tecnique, good post processing in general. Even in 100% view.
Sadly I'm a so called pixel peeper, and I am very interested in the absolute in quality. A slightly miscalibrated lens, overexposure, underexposure, oversharpened images is something I don't like at all
But even my latest experiments for a few hours today, just wanting to start shooting in RAW, makes me NOT wanting to do that. I took several shots with my perfectly calibrated EF-S 60mm today, shot in RAW+JPEG Fine. Converted with CPP directly as 16bit TIFF to Photoshop CS3. And side by side comparing the JPEG and the RAW-TIFF file, zooming in 100%, 200% and so on. I can se some slight difference and some slight JPEG artifacts in 200% but not in 100%. *But it is so minimal, so extremely minimal*.
I played around with curves, levels, but do not see much of a difference, not at all. I've used a calibrated, decent, Sony TFT and a Samsung CRT. But the JPEG's out of my Canon cameras look so incredible good and the RAW too Even whitebalance is so easy to fix in Photoshop, and very often not needed (for me anyway).
The last year I shoot Large JPEG Fine with sharpness set to 0, saturation to default, contrast -2. For me that is the digital negative. Please tell me what I'm missing, I read about the big RAW advantage all the time but I just can't see the difference nor understand it. Please prove me wrong. I want to see the magic of RAW! ;-)
Besides, JPEG is so much smaller, so much faster to work with and display. Always readable with almost all computers and standard software.
/Niklas
(Please excuse me for my bad english spelling, grammar....)
I have used Canon 300D, 350D, 400D and now for a few weeks, the 40D. Almost always I find myself using JPEG, but sometimes I do some experiments with RAW.
I have never found RAW to have better picture quality to my eyes, I've followed these forums and seen endless examples of JPEG and RAW pictures. Good photos always look good regardless of format to my eyes (considering proper exposure, good sharpening tecnique, good post processing in general. Even in 100% view.
Sadly I'm a so called pixel peeper, and I am very interested in the absolute in quality. A slightly miscalibrated lens, overexposure, underexposure, oversharpened images is something I don't like at all
But even my latest experiments for a few hours today, just wanting to start shooting in RAW, makes me NOT wanting to do that. I took several shots with my perfectly calibrated EF-S 60mm today, shot in RAW+JPEG Fine. Converted with CPP directly as 16bit TIFF to Photoshop CS3. And side by side comparing the JPEG and the RAW-TIFF file, zooming in 100%, 200% and so on. I can se some slight difference and some slight JPEG artifacts in 200% but not in 100%. *But it is so minimal, so extremely minimal*.
I played around with curves, levels, but do not see much of a difference, not at all. I've used a calibrated, decent, Sony TFT and a Samsung CRT. But the JPEG's out of my Canon cameras look so incredible good and the RAW too Even whitebalance is so easy to fix in Photoshop, and very often not needed (for me anyway).
The last year I shoot Large JPEG Fine with sharpness set to 0, saturation to default, contrast -2. For me that is the digital negative. Please tell me what I'm missing, I read about the big RAW advantage all the time but I just can't see the difference nor understand it. Please prove me wrong. I want to see the magic of RAW! ;-)
Besides, JPEG is so much smaller, so much faster to work with and display. Always readable with almost all computers and standard software.
/Niklas