Hi Moose,
> Wilcox, Joel F wrote:
>
> >So I ordered a C-5060 from B&H this morning..... I guess one
> of my learning points will be to find out how significant the
> slow RAW write time is going to be to me.
> >
> There are really 2 ways to work. One is using RAW and finishing the
> image in an image editor. The second is to shoot in the
> highest quality
> JPEG and adjust the camera and presets to the best image quality for
> your tastes right out of the camera. You can do both, of course,
> depending on the subject and circumstances. For many
> purposes, you may
> find that RAW just isn't needed. Then the RAW write time
> doesn't matter
> for those shots. .
I will definitely run the jpeg selections through their paces, as this
really seems the most efficient way to work with the camera. It seems
analogous to Silverfast, which offers a host of canned "profiles", you
might say, like "Landscape" and others I can't remember. I don't use
them and generally pull the image into PS and set white and black points
and maybe a neutral gray if I'm lucky enough. I think I probably sound
like a RAW guy by nature. 8^0
> >Should this have an impact on the kind of "digital film" I buy?
> >
> Yes, it could. Lexar has developed and is pushing what they call WA
> (Write Acceleration Technology), where added smarts in the
> camera work
> with the card to speed up write times. The E-1 and 5060 are
> cameras that
> include WA support. More detail here
> <http://www.lexarmedia.com/digfilm/index_cf.html>. I can't
> endorse from
> personal experience, as I don't have a camera that supports
> WA, but if
> I'd bought an E-1, I'd have popped for the extra $15-20 for a 1gb WA
> card (vs. a SanDisk Ultra II.).
Thanks very much for that link. I had read about WA earlier today and
noted that it was described as mainly available in digital SLRs. I am
thrilled to see that it is supported in the C5060. That is a bonus I
hadn't anticipated.
Joel W.
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