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Originally Posted by dcstep
Just to emphasize, if you "get it right in the camera" and you're shooting digital, then you have not achieved "optimal exposure". If the dynamic range is low, then it won't matter a bunch, but the higher the DR, the more information you'll lose.
Dave |
Yep, that's exactly right Dave.
Going right back to the beginning of this thread, and as has already been mentioned, memory is so cheap these days. So, why on Earth would a wedding photographer not shoot JPEG and RAW together ?
Invariably he's only going to get one chance to 'get it right in camera', but what if he doesn't, especially with THE shot of the day ?
OK, as photographers we're probably over critical of our own, and other photographers work. However a blushing bride isn't even going to notice if the odd highlight on her dress is blown out. All she sees is whether her hair looks right, does her bum look big in the dress, and whether the guy stood next to her is really the person she wants to live with for ever.
So the wedding photographer has got this amazing shot but . . . maybe the exposure is just a little too far off to get the best out of the JPEG. If he has the RAW, even if that's the only RAW he wants to, or needs to, process, he can do it. Then just delete all the RAW files.
As I said memory is so cheap these days.
I bought my first digital camera in 2003, A 4MP Canon G3, described as the ultimate photographic tool ! I was so convinced that with the 'massive' files this machine was going to create, I would need to get more memory. The camera came with a 32mb compact flash card and, at that time CF cards were only available up to 256mb. So I bought a 1GB IBM Microdrive, which I still have but no longer use. It cost £175 (175 GB pounds), around $260 US. now I get 8GB (CF & SD) cards for less than £10 ($15).
Amazingly cheap by comparison.