Thanks for the explanations mindgam! Indeed of course there were plenty of stuff coming with the camera, but never really checked exactly what.. I will maybe, but I don't want to discover RAW is so much better :(

my experience with raw on my 20D is it does produce fewer artifacts... but the Canon proprietary raw format is quite annoying :( my sony was able to record in .tif format (well, it wasnt a true raw... it was a jpg converted into the .tif... which meant it was pointless) but recording in .CR2 format requires the proprietary software the camera came with... which is good; but not as useful as PS. PS doesn't recognize the image format.... so i had the files converted from .CR2>.tif

i was then able to do the proper image processing with no quality loss... the strange thing is, the .cr2's were 1/2 the recorded size of the .tif files.

mabey its just that my old version of PS doesnt support CR2's, and PS 8 does?

*drool* nice 17-40L :shock:

Nice lenses and judging by your test photos you know how to use them :)

Ok, today I tried to play around a bit with RAW (sorry for hyjacking the topic dude), and in the end I think it's not worth the hassle for what I need. My pics are anyway cropped, resized and saved at lower quality for web purpose, and any minor quality gain at the source is soon lost in the process :bah:

Here are 2 pics taken with the 17-40 F/4 L today:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~akoevoet/GoT/IMG_5489-border.jpg
http://www.xs4all.nl/~akoevoet/GoT/IMG_5498-border.jpg

I use Adobe's Raw Converter with Photoshop CS2 and really like it:
http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html