Quote:
Originally Posted by russbarnes
The practicalities of a RAW round are just not workable in my view................. in practice pretty much impossible to make work I would have thought...
|
Agreed - both unworkable and impractical. A raw file is just that, unprocessed data captured by the camera that is not even viewable until first rendered by software or part processed in camera to produce a viewable (and small) jpeg image on the cameras LCD. And when made viewable by having been rendered in software the same raw file will appear differently depending upon the software chosen for this rendering. Canon raw files for example are rendered much differently (and better in my view) in DPP that in Adobe's Lightroom with the latter only being used in my case because it offers more post processing capabilities. I don't think any of the contemporary photographic artists of yesteryear would be recognised as such today had they simply set up their box cameras, captured an image and then submitted it as is to a high street developer prior to the final print appearing in a gallery/exhibition.