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Rod - 26 Jun 2007 03:16 GMT

Here is one example why shooting RAW is
beneficial. I shot this picture at a baseball game
in the evening after a storm. I forgot I was in
manual mode and it was over exposed by about 1.5
stops. The link below is 1.6 meg so it might take
a little while to load depending on your internet
speed. I'm not saying not to be careful and
develop good skills but I now shoot everything in
RAW mode.

http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/RAW.jpg

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Phil - 26 Jun 2007 03:34 GMT

> Here is one example why shooting RAW is
> beneficial. I shot this picture at a baseball game
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> http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/RAW.jpg

Very nice - I'll need to try that.

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Pete D - 26 Jun 2007 06:44 GMT

> Here is one example why shooting RAW is beneficial. I shot this picture at
> a baseball game in the evening after a storm. I forgot I was in manual
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> http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/RAW.jpg

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Mark² - 27 Jun 2007 11:57 GMT

> Here is one example why shooting RAW is
> beneficial. I shot this picture at a baseball game
[quoted text clipped - 7 lines]
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> http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/RAW.jpg

That's certainly a good example, Rod. RAW definitely has its advantages,
and one of them is the ability to recover blown highlights, as you've shown.
It doesn't have to come simply from a mistake, either. Sometimes highlight
recovery is necessary even in "properly" exposed images...

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eawckyegcy@yahoo.com - 27 Jun 2007 14:26 GMT

> http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/RAW.jpg

This image was not over-exposed, but over-processed. Here, the red-
channel gain was too high when the JPEG was initially rendered from
the raw data in-camera, creating a "blown" red. Try recoving a blown
green channel...

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Blah - 28 Jun 2007 03:04 GMT

Interesting, how do you know that? Where did you learn? tx blah

>> http://i150.photobucket.com/albums/s108/Billfor/RAW.jpg
>
> This image was not over-exposed, but over-processed. Here, the red-
> channel gain was too high when the JPEG was initially rendered from
> the raw data in-camera, creating a "blown" red. Try recoving a blown
> green channel...

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