No, you have it wrong about my shooting raw. It's not that I want to
adjust all my photographs for color and contrast but that I shoot a
great deal of flash in manual mode and also make a significant number of
exposure errors. But most are easily within the range of a raw file's
ability to recover. Also, by definition, subjects not within a very
tight distance range in a flash shot are either underexposed or
overexposed. If I shoot raw I can recover a lot of that if the shot is
important enough.
I'll gladly bow before anyone using any kind of equipment who can shoot
a full wedding day (including lots or fill and indoor flash) completely
in JPEG without having exposure problems on at least some potentially
valuable shots. It's not me. I'm nowhere near that good... at least
when I'm moving fast.
When the 5D replacement comes out I won't do anything to baseline it
because I'll still have a 5D. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
Ken Norton wrote:
> Chuck, Moose,
>
> I revised the poll to make it slightly more to your satisfaction. :)
>
>> And, are you also implying that such a thing can't happen if I was shooting
> with Fuji or
>> Kodak Pro films?
>
> I would never imply such a thing. After all, I can guarantee that there are
> certain colors that those films won't capture either. But you wouldn't know
> unless you test. Empirical evidence only goes so far. Without a baseline
> comparison, we are just floating around without any solid anchor or even a
> point of reference. At least Moose sets up profiles using a standardized
> target--but as I'm about to prove, the standardized target can be WAY OFF as
> compared to real-world lighting, fabrics and colors.
>
> Maybe this is why you are shooting RAW. As such, 100% of the photographs
> have to be touched in one way or another. Why is this? And WHY should we
> have to retouch our photographs to get the color/contrast response that is
> native in so many films? And on a side-note, why is it that Fuji DSLR and
> Olympus E-1 wedding photographers typically just shot in-camera JPEGs and
> never worried about it? (flip answer is that Fuji and Olympus DSLR users
> aren't as smart as Canon photographs) (the flip flip answer is that Fuji
> and Olympus DSLR users are smarter than Canon users and can get it right
> in-camera)
>
> :)
>
> When the 5D replacement comes out, how will you baseline it? Or will you
> just wing it and fix it in post?
>
> AG
>
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