Digital BW, The Print

> Ken -
> 
> So you actually shoot RAW?  Check out Ken Rockwell's article 
> at http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/raw.htm
> titled "JPG vs RAW vs TIFF: Get it Right the First Time ".  I 
> never shoot RAW and prefer to make all decisions at the time 
> of taking the picture.  Ken makes a solid case for doing it 
> this way.  I am getting excellent results with my D-70 
> shooting jpeg's and having the camera do a little sharpening 
> and saturation enhancement - which it does on the full RAW 
> output before saving it to jpeg so absolutely no artifacts.
> 
> Peter

Yep.  I don't see what the attraction is with jpg.  I think the greatest
invention of the 21st century is the WhiBal, the little folding set of
cards.  At the end of your series in the same light, you take your WhiBal
shot and apply that to all the similar raw files in Capture One, ACR or
whatever.  Compare that to trying to get a custom white balance capture in
jpg.  I don't see his point on time consumption.  If you need a really fast
edit, Photo Mechanic does that.  I use Capture One and don't feel
disavantaged by the speed of the edit.  I think he said he took half an hour
to download a one gig RAW card - must have USB 1 or something.  Also, RAW
and resulting tif files are loss-less, while jpg is lossy compression - why
do that?  

  -Ken