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What file type would be recomended
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petercox wrote:
Shooting both gets very expensive in terms of storage if you shoot any kind of volume. I tried it once back when I was just making the transition and it was a pain to manage.
PeterIt’s not expensive in the least, not when a 4Gb card is ?18. Cards are cheap as chips.
It is expensive if you shoot high volume and store most of the images. Storage may be cheap, but once you have a few hundred gigs of images, it gets awkward to manage and back up effectively.
Granted for someone who’s just shooting as a hobby, it’s not going to be that big of a deal. Just something else to think about.
Peter
Brian_C wrote:
It’s not expensive in the least, not when a 4Gb card is ?18. Cards are cheap as chips.
Not for a decent card… Cheapest I’ve found a Sandisk Extreme IV 4GB Compact Flash card for is ?164.99
Granted, not everyone needs to go to this extent, but I’d rather not risk losing images or missing shots due to a cheap card…
Also, shooting both will slow down your shooting, as it will take longer to write.
It’s all swings and roundabouts, really – pick your poison!! :D
Personally I don’t see the point in shooting Jpeg only or Jpeg + RAW, as I can generate both from a RAW file, but I can’t make a RAW file from a Jpeg.
Tim
earthairfire wrote:
Cheapest I’ve found a Sandisk Extreme IV 4GB Compact Flash card for is ?164.99
Personally, I think it’s a bit silly buying an Extreme IV. Yes, they are the very best card available but most users really won’t see the extra speed that these cards offer. Certainly not when they’re in the camera; you might notice an speed increase when downloading through a special card reader. Yes, they are more rugged too, but again, who really treats their cards so carelessly as to need this extra insurance. I use a mix of Sandisk Ultra II and Extreme III cards, and there really is no noticeable difference in write speed (there is when downloading however). At the moment you can buy the Extreme II cards and get a free license to Capture One LE (worth GBP 99.00). A 2GB Extreme III will set you back about GBP 38.90 (an Ultra II 2GB GBP 27.90) (my last purchase was from Picstop). They also have the 4GB Extreme IV for GBP 145.00 (oncl VAT). I have a Transcend 4GB card but most of my cards are Extreme III 2GB – just less data to lose if you lose the card or it goes corrupt! Transcend is a little known but reputable brand which should be as reliable as the big name brands like Lexar and SanDisk but for a lot less money; only I don’t think they have the lifetime warranty that Lexar and SanDisk offer.
Totally agree (I did say most ppl don’t need to go to this extent)
I only use 1Gb or 2GB cards for the same reasons as listed above – I don’t wanna lose 4GB of pics!!
Tim
petercox wrote:
Expresbro – I’ve just recently put together a 15 minute introduction to RAW processing video which you can find on my website: http://www.petercox.ie/blog/2007/02/new_tutorial_video_camera_raw.php
Cheers,
PeterThanks for that Peter. I’ll check it out later. I do want to get to grips with RAW before I make the jump to a full DSLR in the next couple of months so hopefully this will help :D
Robbie
8)Expresbro wrote:
I find the whole RAW v Jpeg question is a bit like whether to breastfeed or not…in photography terms of course!! We all know it’s better in the long run, but it is harder work and is more demanding of your time.
Would it also not be the case that if you are not very familiar with post processing and not particularly accomplished at it at the start of your photography endeavours that you could in fact end up with worse images than if you’d used Jpeg?
I’ve been using RAW from the very start because you have all of the flexibiliy in the post process stage. Most importantly if RAW is converted to TIFF you will be working in lossless format.
The problem i see with .jpg is that every time you save, you lose quality… which is not a good thingI
Hi Puckpics…
Since I wrote that little ditty I’ve actually got my D80 and have now pretty much switched to shooting RAW all the time (I had been using jpeg sometimes when I only had a 2GB card and was prone to running out of space..but I’ve remedied that and now have 7Gb worth of cards :D )
To be honest, I’ve found that it doesn’t really take me any longer to process RAW files as it did Jpegs (even doing single files at a time..haven’t got around to batch processing yet) as I have gotten used to the basic functions of Camera Raw and pretty much know what i need for each image.
I generally save direct to Jpeg as most of the images i process end up on my Flikr site or here. Be nice to read why I should save to Tiff instead of Jpeg and what the advantages are.
Oh I also bought a 400Gb external harddrive so that helped with my storage problems too… :D
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