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Originally Posted by gfspencer
Because they can?  Was that a trick question? Did I get the right answer?
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It wasn't a trick question, compadre, it was a rhetorical question.
I agree with you about the appreciation for quality. I appreciate quality tools, and the M8, IMO, is a reasonably high-quality tool, and the lenses are the keystone of quality.
And therein lies the root of my contention: why it appears so many people appreciate the quality of the tool itself and yet settle for out-of-camera JPGs. Regardless of a person's post-processing skills, JPGs are pretty limited in what can be "developed" from an original file.
Certainly, learning to coax a fine image from a DNG file takes more effort, but as those skills are acquired, honed and repeated, I dare say one can post-process a DNG file in the same time it takes to post-process a JPG. And if it's a difficult file (mixed light/poor light/no light, etc) I can get a better result
faster from a DNG than from a JPG.
The JPG vs DNG debate reminds me of the Kodak Brownie sales pitch, "You take the pictures, we'll do the rest!" No thanks; I'd rather not let the camera decide how my image should turn out.
More rhetorical questions:
Some people drive Porsches . . . to deliver pizzas?
Some people play Martin guitars . . . and use bailing wire for strings?
Some people wear a Tag Heuer . . . hmmm, because they can?.