----- Original Message ----- From: "Cotty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "pentax list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 1:54 AM Subject: Re: First use of ist D
> On 27/9/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] disgorged: > > >> The camera doesnt record the exposure information in the RAW file? > > > >I don't shoot in RAW, since I have no interest in image quality. If I did, I > >wouldn't be shooting with a piddly little digital camera in the first place. > > William has a point. You guys will finally get around to realising that > large/fine jpegs have virtually as much detail in them as RAW files (for > printing) and take up way less room. You'll get nearly a hundred on a > 256MB card and they whip through the buffer like Cesar's trips. You have > to get the white balance right, no big deal. And guess what, you still > get the exposure info if for some reason you need it. Well, at least I do. > > The only things I've been interested in were looking at the focal length > - real and perceived - when using zoom lenses. Gads, that was meant to be tongue in cheek. I recall you posting a while back that jpeg large was effectively as good as RAW, and since then I was shooting everything on my G1 in jpeg mode. It seemed fine... The Ist D doesn't compress as much, and only gets 57 jpegs on a 256mb card in fine mode, or 111 in medium compression, 221 with maximum compression. This is with 2000x3000 pixels. You can turn the pixel count down and get close to a thousand images then, but they are pretty small. Good for web use, probably not much else, and the buffer still fills up after 5 of them. William Robb
