Jeff Spirer <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > At 09:40 AM 9/14/2004, Emily L. Ferguson wrote: >> And, of course, your students will need to learn to manage RAW, >> since most pros are shooting in it in my experience. > > This isn't my experience. A friend of mine shoots for Fashion Wire > (here's one of his - > http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/040911/1889/fwd115b20040911jpg&e=41&ncid=), > he's been working events with anywhere from 20 to 50 other > photographers (he says half the job is elbowing and kicking to get the > best position) and he and all the other photographers are shooting > jpg. I've heard this about some sports photographers too. If > properly set up, the highest jpg setting can give as good a photo as > RAW for the applications they're doing. There's no time to process, > not even enough time to download. The article on www.robgalbraith.com about Sports Illustrated's first all-digital Superbowl reports nearly all the photographers shooting in RAW+jpeg mode there. Which seemed excessive to me, too -- the fine JPEG setting would be *fine* for a magazine cover photo, especially since a number of photographers were shooting more than 6mp cameras. > For the band shots I do, I've switched to jpg - I don't have time to > process 100 shots for them. Yeah, that gets to be an issue. > In the studio, where's there may be more time, that's different. On the other hand, the studio is where I'm least likely to need to salvage wonky exposure and color-balance later. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://noguns-nomoney.com/> <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://dd-b.lighthunters.net/> <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
