I had shot JPEG only for a long peroid of time with my E10, cost was the
major reason. It was early 2001 to early 2003 when the price of a small
capacity memory card was just like a new DC today. With the 64MB Smartmedia,
sometimes I even have to shoot at low quality JPEG.
In order to get more room for adjustment, I set the camera to low contrast.
Also, I carefully expose the scenes and adjust color temp during shooting.
At 2003 when I got a Canon 10D I started to shoot RAW but sometime still
shoot JPEG only as the cost of CF was still very expensive. Honestly say, I
don't think JPEG only does not work. Of course, with the low memory cost
today, I don't see a reason not to shoot RAW.
Consider Brian had paid $600 for a kitchen mixer tap (the cost of an i7 here
for me), I believe the real cost is more on the learning curve of a new
computer/OS and RAW converter/editor. These may look easy for some people
but not for everyone.
C.H.Ling
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From: "Nathan Wajsman" <photo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
This is just ridiculous. You should go back to film if you are not prepared
to have an adequately sized computer for 2014 requirements.
I have an image with proof, from my very first month of shooting digitial,
10 years ago:
http://www.frozenlight.eu/nathanfoto/paw/2004/2004_31alt1.jpg
This is with a Canon 10D, my first digital camera. Due to lack of knowledge,
and for “convenience”, I was shooting JPG.
After posting this among my PAWs for week 31 in 2004, I decided (based on
some suggestions) that it would be better in B&W. But when I went to convert
it, ugly artifacts appeared. No matter what I did, I just could not get a
decent B&W conversion. I was using Photoshop at the time (don’t remember the
version, but it was the current one at the time). I finally gave up on the
B&W but since that experience, I have never bothered shooting JPG. RAW only
for me.
Cheers,
Nathan
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