On 21 Nov 2004 at 17:20, Doug Franklin wrote: > OK, so now I'm wondering what changes to the default state/settings are > common for different shooting situations, or whatever. If the *ist D > owners around here are willing, we could work up an "*ist D for > Dummies" web page. I'd be willing to host it on the NutDriver site. I > just need you guys to let me know what should be on it, since I'm not > (yet) a member of the initiated.
The camera state/settings really only matter for internal JPEG/TIFF conversion and of course they determine contrast and colour cast for the imbedded preview image in the RAW file. The cameras settings are also used as the seed for the PLab convertor settings but these can obviously be changed (excluding ISO of course) The PS CS RAW convertor is much more flexible again, it allows "camera defaults" to be pre-set. I generally don't adjust my in camera post processing settings such as saturation and sharpness in camera, they are fixed at mid and minimum positions respectively. The only things I tend to adjust regularly are colour balance and ISO and very occasionally contrast by it is usually pre-set at low. I'm set up this way with the expectation that I will engage in post processing and I find these settings give me the best adjustment latitude and final image quality. On a related thread I have produced a rough draft of my generic conversion procedure using PC CS RAW. If others users who have developed a workable RAW conversion procedure are willing to share maybe procedures could be added to a page as a "my RAW conversion procedure using application yyy" ? Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
