Re: Does Digital Rebel make for a good educational camera in your opinion?

[Jeff Spirer <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My comment referred to "professionals."  Professionals can operate under 
completely different circumstances.  My friend who shoots for Fashion Wire, 
and the people who shoot at the same events, have to get through 500 images 
a night sometimes.  There's no times for corrections - you have to get it 
as close to perfect in jpg as can be done.  Most of the images you see are 
done this way, it's no great secret, the news guys aren't out there 
manipulating images when their stuff is going out in six hours.

However, I've found with the 10D that I can get almost identical results in 
"normal" lighting conditions, including manipulation.  Most of the benefits 
of 16 bits get lost in typical output.

 At 03:50 PM 9/14/2004, James B. Davis wrote:

> I've tried JPG a few times, always with disappointment at the results.
> I you're happy with inferior images, or like the sports guys you
> mention you must shoot JPG, then go ahead and shoot JPG.
>
> I shoot JPG if I'm shooting for the web, otherwise I use Capture One
> and RAW always. I like having a big, fat 16 bit range of tones to
> manipulate. Never met an image that didn't get better with
> manipulation. (tweaking)
>
>
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