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Photo Forum / Digital Photography / DSLR Cameras / January 2007Parametrs??
Hi When you guys are out there shooting photos do you play with parameters in your camera or do you leave it for RAW processing? > Hi > When you guys are out there shooting photos do you play with parameters in > your camera or do you leave it for RAW processing? Yes. <s> But that's accurate: There are times for both, and times for either, even times for neither.  SignatureJohn McWilliams > Hi > When you guys are out there shooting photos do you play with parameters in > your camera or do you leave it for RAW processing? I pretty much leave it for raw processing. I have played with parameters just to see what the camera can do with jpegs, but I have no interest in shooting in jpeg mode so changing the parameters has little to offer me. Scott > When you guys are out there shooting photos do you play with > parameters in your camera or do you leave it for RAW processing? RAW processing cannot change aperture, shutter speed, ISO, or flash output, so if you care about there things, there i no choice but to set them in camera. Settings for sharpness, contrast, saturation, and so forth can definitely be fiddled with after the fact. Easier with RAW than with JPG, but doable either way. I can't imagine wanting to mess with these in camera once set. --------------- Marc Sabatella marc@outsideshore.com Music, art, & educational materials Featuring "A Jazz Improvisation Primer" http://www.outsideshore.com/ >> When you guys are out there shooting photos do you play with parameters >> in your camera or do you leave it for RAW processing? [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > either way. I can't imagine wanting to mess with these in camera once > set. White balance can be fine tuned in software (capture nx) later, but I still try and set the approximate value in camera (eg incandescent, sunny, cloudy, shade etc) so that the picture looks reasonable in preview (nikon view). The other in camera settings that seem to work best with my d70s are: Colour Mode IIIa, sharpness high, contrast low, saturation medium, but these can of course be fine tuned in software later, but the less fine tuning the better! cheers adrian www.boliston.co.uk >> RAW processing cannot change aperture, shutter speed, ISO, or flash >> output, so if you care about there things, there i no choice but to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > sunny, cloudy, shade etc) so that the picture looks reasonable in > preview (nikon view). I should hav mentioned that as the one exception - something that *can* be done in RAW processing, but is often better to do in camera. Especially if you are using manual WB of course. And if you're shooting JPG, its probably the hardest of these to correct later. > The other in camera settings that seem to work best with my d70s are: > Colour Mode IIIa, sharpness high, contrast low, saturation medium, but > these can of course be fine tuned in software later, but the less fine > tuning the better! Definitely. I take it as a given you'd set up the camera the way you like so that the defualt pictures look good. I took the question to mean, are people fiddling with these things on a shot by shot basis. --------------- Marc Sabatella marc@outsideshore.com Music, art, & educational materials Featuring "A Jazz Improvisation Primer" http://www.outsideshore.com/ >> The other in camera settings that seem to work best with my d70s are: >> Colour Mode IIIa, sharpness high, contrast low, saturation medium, but [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > so that the defualt pictures look good. I took the question to mean, are > people fiddling with these things on a shot by shot basis. When I was new to DSLR photography there was some "expert" website that suggested maxing out the in-camera colour saturation settings on the D70s, and I spent a while wondering why all my pictures looked quite unnatural! cheers adrian www.boliston.co.uk > Hi > When you guys are out there shooting photos do you play with parameters in > your camera or do you leave it for RAW processing? I dial in exposure compensation when needed. > Hi > When you guys are out there shooting photos do you play with parameters > in your camera or do you leave it for RAW processing? Parameters apply only to jpeg; they have no effect on the raw format. So, on rare occasions when I shoot in jpeg, I fiddle with the parameters (contrast, sharpness, saturation) and specially with the white balance setting (strictly speaking not a parameter). Even for raw, I adjust WB if necessary, so that I need to make less changes at the time of conversion. Signaturegautam > Parameters apply only to jpeg; they have no effect on the raw format. That's not necesarily true. They won't affect the sensor data itself, of course, but most cameras do record the settings of the various processing parameters in the file, and most RAW procesisng software will look at them in deciding how to process the image when it displays or converts it - at least, until you override those settings. --------------- Marc Sabatella marc@outsideshore.com Music, art, & educational materials Featuring "A Jazz Improvisation Primer" http://www.outsideshore.com/ > > Parameters apply only to jpeg; they have no effect on the raw format. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > look at them in deciding how to process the image when it displays or > converts it - at least, until you override those settings. Well, for my D200 at least, ACR, Capture 1, Silkypix, Raw Magick Lite, rawshooter, Bibble and dcraw all ignore all camera jpeg settings except white balance. Only nikon capture does take them into account. So to say that most converters take them into account is inaccurate in this case. Maybe these converters do take them into account for other cameras, I don't know. Frankly, I prefer it that they don't anyway. >> Parameters apply only to jpeg; they have no effect on the raw format. > [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > look at them in deciding how to process the image when it displays or > converts it - at least, until you override those settings. I agree that some converters, specially camera specific ones like DPP, use camera settings to show the initial image. I forgot that as I use ufraw, which completely ignores any camera settings other than WB. Signaturegautam > Hi > When you guys are out there shooting photos do you play with parameters in > your camera or do you leave it for RAW processing? I turn down all the contrast, staturation and sharpening for jpegs and shoot raw also. It's easy to boost saturation & sharpen a jpeg and often the raw isn't needed. |
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