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Originally Posted by MALCOLMX i find as a photographer that raw essentials does the job if i use raw ,however i know that a photo taken as a large jpeg will not be distinguishable from a raw converted to tiff at a4. imho raw is a tool designed for professionals with a very heavy work load and the need to sell prints. i think that the raw has been hyped up somewhat as it implies that you can take a photo any how and correct it in raw ,this makes for lazy photographers. my own view is that the photo is created in the camera and not in the computer.(sorry for the soap box).if you do use raw only correct white balance if you are going to proceed to photo shop if not most of the parameters in raw will give you a good print so long as your monitor and printer have matching profiles (raw assumes monitors and printers correctly profiled) |
RAW is the digital negative and allows correction of exposure, white balance and many other things. Its not designed specifically for professionals nor does it make lazy photographers. If you ever used film and I assume as a photographer you did, you will know that despite the photo being taken in camera the negative was processed afterwards, the same as RAW does for the digital print.