Yes I am a RAW shooter... Yes I enjoy the range and tonality a 12 or 14 bit file provides the RAW format. Does that make me a RAW snob. Only if looked down on RAW shooters and that is just not the case. Do I think that someone who only soots jpeg is lees of a photographer? Not at all! I come from an industry that has switches that allow pilots to customize the displays they fly by. Why would it make a difference to me what format someone else shoots in.
Actually I am probably stuck in RAW because I am probably be too lazy to make changes in the camera. I am thinking of setting one of the Custom setting on the 40D and 5D Mk II in jpeg so it would be simple to change and reduce the likelihood of forgetting to change it back.
Here is a jpeg my wife took last year while D.C. on her Nikon CoolPix L6. She sets it in auto mode and fires away. Not a thing wrong with that. In fact that is probably the best what to maximize the spontaneity that a point and shoot provides. The xif data revealed the shot was taken at 1/400, f/5.3, ISO 50 at a focal length of 19.2 mm.
Photo by Evelyn Peek
A classic shot from the north side of the tidal basin of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C. Even with the cherry blossom partially obscuring the top of the monument it is a very strong foreground that emphasizes a special time of year in the D.C. area. If this were the fall, a bare branch in the same place would not have worked so well. The real beauty here is that Lightroom and Adobe Camera RAW is not just a RAW editors. TIFF's and JPEG's are not a problem.
Jazzing with the sliders and localized correction brush (they should call it an enhancing brush) in Lightroom makes an already nice image pop. Being able to locally lighten the cherry blossom and boost the tonality of the monument is really big without having to get into Photoshop.
Sooo... JPEG shooter unite! It is still a fantastic format.
Take care... Doug
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