Digital BW, The Print

Ernst Dinkla <edinkla@...> wrote:

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> I have the 5D2 here too for 10 days now.
> ... I have an awful lot to learn.

Learning these new computer-cameras is no small task. I feel I'm just at the beginning even though I'd purchased a Canon Rebel several years ago as "training wheels."

I'm inclined toward simplicity and avoiding having to learn lots of new software.  So, some of what I'll be testing is whether these raw files and the various adjustments in the converter are really that significant for what I do.  

One bottom line question I'd like to know is whether any image information is lost when one converts a raw file to a 16 bit RGB file with no special adjustments at all.  (I'm just using the Canon software to convert now.)

With the old Rebel, I tried to find more highlight information in the raw file by converter adjustments, and I found no difference at all from what I could achieve in Photoshop by adjusting the tiff file after just converting the raw file with default settings. 


Paul
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