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by **bkthomson** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:26 pm

KingPagla wrote:Played around with Raw files for the first time.
Fun, but I have a lot to learn.

What do you get from the raw file format?

by **bkthomson** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:29 pm

Benderbrau wrote:This reminds me: I've heard that faster SD cards reduce the time between camera shots? If true then what's the best SD card to accomplish this?

It is true. I use a ScanDisk Ultra 8gig I'm my camera.

by **KingPagla** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:35 pm

bkthomson wrote:It is true. I use a ScanDisk Ultra 8gig I'm my camera.

Yeah different cards can make a big difference.
There was a website I found once that rated cards for different cameras.
Some worked better with others.

by **KingPagla** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:45 pm

bkthomson wrote:What do you get from the raw file format?

It's like working with a Negative as apposed to a print.
The camera takes in a whole lot of visual information when you take a picture and then its itty bitty computer decides what to keep when making a jpeg and throws everything else out.
Working with the raw file lets you play with all that extra info.
At the least you can let your much smarter computer decide what to keep rather than the camera.

For example; that Statue of Liberty shot was very much a silhouette in the jpeg that came from the camera, and when I tried to brighten it to see if I could bring out detail, the sky would totally blow out.
Working with the raw file I was able to bring out the detail in the statue while keeping the detail in the sky.

by **Benderbrau** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:48 pm

KingPagla wrote:Yeah different cards can make a big difference.
There was a website I found once that rated cards for different cameras.
Some worked better with others.

Do you still know that website?

by **KingPagla** » Fri Aug 13, 2010 7:52 pm

Benderbrau wrote:Do you still know that website?

No idea. It was years ago that I found it; since then I've just stuck with the Ultra II cards.

by **Fenway** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 2:13 am

I realllllly like the the Statue of Liberty pic.

[I enjoy taking pictures of my cats]

by **KingPagla** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:32 pm

Fenway wrote:I realllllly like the the Statue of Liberty pic.

[I enjoy taking pictures of my cats]

Thanks!

Love the cat pics.
The wife and I have three new kittens ourselves.

by **Starlord** » Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:39 pm

beautiful kittens. love that black and white and gray one!

by **Jonathan** » Sun Aug 15, 2010 12:22 am

Damn, I forgot about this thread.

This is my Flickr account -

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaydubphotography/

I mainly take pics with my Canon Rebel XTi, Panasonic Lumix and Samsung Maxima (Film).

by **ZombieRed** » Sun Sep 12, 2010 3:11 pm

Just some photos I took recently from when I went camping and when I went to Montreal. I know a lot of them might need editing but I thought I'd show them first and get around to that stuff later:

Let me know what you think of them.