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TT · 12-09-2005, 08:15 AM

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

nthfinity · 12-09-2005, 09:40 AM

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?

Zot09 · 12-09-2005, 12:18 PM

*drool* nice 17-40L :shock:

SDK2003 · 12-09-2005, 02:19 PM

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

TT · 12-09-2005, 04:39 PM

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:

MartijnGizmo · 12-09-2005, 05:01 PM

Here are 2 pics taken with the 17-40 F/4 L today:

Originally Posted by nthfinity

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?

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