Digital BW, The Print

Peter,

> Shooting RAW is like expecting to shoot a film that is
> Kodachrome 25 and Velvia 100 and everything in between
> so that you can decide which film you really wanted
> sometime it the future - in your copious free time.

Funny you should pick on the only two films that I ever used; no sorry, I 
used the old Velvia 50 and K25.

> Also, RAW files are totally non-standard.  One from a
> D-100 is totally different from that of a D-70, even
> though both are Nikon.

Yes, but Nikon Capture has different methods of dealing with the images from 
those two cameras, so no problem.

> Do you really think that any
> of these RAW files will be able to be opened in 10
> years?

Yes. At the very least they will be opened with the current versions of 
Nikon Capture, even if Nikon give up on them in newer versions of Capture in 
10 yrs time. You can still run Windows 3.1 and even older DOS versions if 
you want to, and the programs that only run on them. Windows XP has 
simulations of older versions of Windows if you need them to run older 
programs.

> JPEG's, on the other hand, will at least be the vinyl
> LP of the future, and they will still be selling
> players for it.

I think jpegs are more like 78's than vinyl 33's. So much is lost! And 
aren't there different flavours of jpeg?

Bob Frost.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Johngren" <pjohngren@...>