[LRflex] RAW vs JPEG fine??
- From: Alex Hurst <corkflor@xxxxxx>
- To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:06:52 +0100
Hi all.
I know this is a hoary old chestnut, but a reiteration of your views
for the benefit of a tyro would be much appreciated
I've just acquired a very nice ex-demo black M8 body which comes with
Capture One, not to mention the full Leica Passport. It's now mated
to my Nocti, which is probably my M8 lens of choice most of the time.
As I'm a Mac man, I tend to use iPhoto as my main photo library, and
edit in Photoshop.
To date with my Nikon D200 I've been very happy with the quality of
the fine JPEGs (printing to a maximum size of A4), and haven't even
dabbled in RAW.
But, as Capture One appears to be highly-rated, is it really worth
learning its ins and outs to extract ultimate quality from the M8 in
RAW, or should I stick to fine JPEGs and my usual routine as with the
Nikon?
I emphasise that I'm not going to be producing huge exhibition
prints, and the M8, like the Nikon, seems to produce 10Mb files in
fine JPEG mode.
With my current set-up, editing is very quick. I have the impression
that RAW is a lot more time-consuming, but I may be mistaken.
What do you guys do and why?
Best of light.
Alex
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