M9 DNG Set up question

[steve70]

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Got it!, Thanks.

I have it now set on Adobe RGB and uncompressed, DNG & fine at 18MP.

Thant should do it?

 

Thanks again to all.

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[Jeff S]

Steve, all helpful info, but maybe now you know why I suggested getting basic grounding in color management first. Then all this won't sound so foreign and, more importantly, you'll understand WHY some of these suggestions have merit...or not...for you.

 

Jeff

[vanhulsenbeek]

Got it!, Thanks.

I have it now set on Adobe RGB and uncompressed, DNG & fine at 18MP.

Thant should do it?

 

Thanks again to all.

 

You got it!

 

But Jeff's advice to get basic grounding in color management still stands. You will sure need it later when converting

[steve70]

Hello,

I think might of have lost this response, so here it is again;

 

Thanks to all of you for your responses.

So, if I got this right, I have the camera set to Adobe RGB, uncompressed file, DNG&Fine 18MP.

That should pretty much do it?

[vanhulsenbeek]

Hello,

I think might of have lost this response, so here it is again;

 

Thanks to all of you for your responses.

So, if I got this right, I have the camera set to Adobe RGB, uncompressed file, DNG&Fine 18MP.

That should pretty much do it?

 

Again: Yes! You got it right.

[chris_tribble]

Got it!, Thanks.

I have it now set on Adobe RGB and uncompressed, DNG & fine at 18MP.

Thant should do it?

 

Thanks again to all.

 

Steve - you're on the way to a really SLOW M9 experience. I'd strongly recommend NOT shooting DNG + JPEG. It just doesn't do the business. Shoot RAW (uncompressed or compressed really doesn't make that much difference IMHO) OR shoot JPEG if you have a professional need for it. I'd really recommend against mixing the two on the M9.

 

Best

 

C:

[Jeff S]

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Hello,

I think might of have lost this response, so here it is again;

 

You lost your own thread? Here is all of it...http://www.l-camera-forum.com/leica-forum/leica-m9-forum/108031-m9-dng-set-up-question.html

 

Jeff

[vanhulsenbeek]

Steve - you're on the way to a really SLOW M9 experience. I'd strongly recommend NOT shooting DNG + JPEG. It just doesn't do the business. Shoot RAW (uncompressed or compressed really doesn't make that much difference IMHO) OR shoot JPEG if you have a professional need for it. I'd really recommend against mixing the two on the M9.

 

Best

 

C:

 

Steve, when Chris says shoot RAW, he means DNG! (Sorry Chris, the mix-up of terms looks like one of the reasons of the initial confusion) . I have no M9 yet, but Chris is sure right when says shooting DNG + JPEG is slow: he has ample experience.

[viramati]

Personally I would say that if your starting out and will be doing your on PP in LR2 I would go for DNG only with compressed. Unless you are really going to be enlarging to gigantic sizes you will be better off this way. Uncompressed files will slow down the camera especially if shooting with jpeg so if anything shoot jpeg with compressed. You will get lots of different opinions on this but personally I shoot compressed DNG and am more than happy with the results. as a previous person said I would try out the Luminous landscape video courses as they can be very helpful if starting out.

[wparsonsgisnet]

Steve,

 

I think the choice of dng + jpeg fine is a good one. It gives you the most options. I used to do this all the time until I became a "serial shooter."

 

1. You'll have a jpeg so that you don't need a raw processor to see the image

2. Jpegs can be viewed in windoze. A thumbnail appears on the left for the file directory when you point at the file

3. You have a backup image if there is a write failure on the SD card

4. You will have the dng for later

5. The uncompressed dng may turn out to be really important in the future (so far there is some skepticism about the value for high-iso captures)

 

The drawbacks are:

 

1. Each dng is 35mb -- you'll be acquiring a disk farm just like the rest of us

2. The jpg takes space, too

3. (Most important to me) the jpeg slows down the camera. The M9/8 takes longer to write the file for a jpg than a dng. It has to do a lot of arithmetic.

 

If you aren't shooting rapidly, the slowness of the write won't bother you.

Having both files will help you sleep at night and prepare for the future.

 

Have fun and ignore all the warnings of disaster from experienced users like us. It's just the constant pain that we are complaining about. Cameras are all about computers, now.

 

Regards,

[jaapv]

Hello there,

Antother possibly neophite question, but am new to digital here.

On my 1 day old M9 on the menu there is an sRGB and an Adobe RGB.

I just purchased a new iMac (Lerning curve there as well!) and am running Adobe CS4.

Any reason to choose sRGB over Adobe RGB? pros & cons?

 

Thanks

Newbie? CS4? Please get Scott Kelby's book - preferably a selection of them! CS4 for digital photographers - the seven point system. Those are nice starting points.

[wparsonsgisnet]

Steve, when you are ready to process raw files (dng's), you might get Scott Fraser's book (the current edition has 2 authors, as Fraser died) entitled "Real World Camera Raw."

 

This is the most important book I have on digital photog. It makes handling raw files so easy. And raw files are the photographers dream come true. This book shows you how to do raw processing in Photoshop.