Yesterday, I shot my first every RAW wedding using the 4gb Hitachi microdrive (courtesy of the Muvo)! I did use some jpgs, just for the family shots which are very easy to expose, so that I had more room for shooting the creative stuff RAW. Anyways, I had a great time, and it all went swimmingly, apart from the amount of batteries that I chewed through, but that is nothing that carrying a few extra sets won't fix.
Well, it just took me exactly 1 hour and 26 minutes to download my almost full Microdrive from the shoot! I think this will become one of those "start it up and walk away" jobs! A question, and I know that it has been briefly touched upon before but... Yesterday's wedding resulted in 495 images captured. Of these, about 85% were RAW with the remaining 15% hi res jpegs. I know that it has been discussed briefly, but I was just wondering what kind of workflow those who are shooting RAW are following. It will take me a good week to wade through so many images , even using the PS CS plug-in.... Also, a couple of you mentioned batch conversion of RAW (.pef) files to .jpg - I find this concept a little confusing though. If I immediately convert my .pef files to .jpgs doesn't it kind of defeat the purpose of shooting RAW in the first place? I mean would I be losing information and also the ability to correct exposure, white balance etc with the extra latitude that the Plug-in allows? Please correct me if I am wrong, and any further suggestions would be greatly appreciated. TIA, tan.
