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Anonymous

"You can change your mind at any time with no cost to the integrity of the file."
This isn't a property special to RAW files, but just to your workflow. Adobe needs to get its act together, and give us lossless editing in Photoshop.

In the meantime, Adobe Lightroom lets you use the same workflow for jpgs as for raw images.

(There are other alternatives, but none with as good a workflow. For a jpg-only workflow, Picasa is a simple lossless editing program, but certainly not as functional as Photoshop.)

Jimmie

Ha, I have to admit I go through similar 'stages' where I leave my 5D at home and slip my P&S in my backpocket, only to wonder why it's not as fast, wide, sharp, and awesome as it's SLR counterpart. Curious, do you use a battery grip as well? How's the fit in the Swiss Army bag?

John Roberts

For me, the real world is prints, not an image on a computer screen at 100% magnification. A 6x7 negative at comparable magnification doesn't looks so impressive either. I can get absolutely beautiful prints up to 11x14 from a 3 year old, 4MP Canon G3. I think you would have been surprised at the quality of prints you could have gotten from your little camera.

You might try the panasonic Lumix DMC-LX1. It shoots raw.

Doug Plummer

John,

I did make prints from the jpg files, and they took some radical layering to achieve anything reasonable. The histogram looked like a comb with a lot of missing teeth, and you could detect a difference in the look of the print. Nothing can compensate for the artifacts from a compressed format. If I had no contrast to prints from my 12mp RAW captures, I might have thought they were OK. But they were inferior.

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