D3/L1: can you shoot RAW wihtout JPEG?

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Now that my L1 is supported by Aperture (yay!) I'm wondering if there is a way to shoot only RAW with no accompanying JPEG file. I can't seem to find a way to turn of the JPEG though. The reason I want to do this is to prevent Aperture from importing both RAW and JPEG files (it hides the JPEG files but they take up a lot of disk space for nothing). Unfortunately Aperture doesn't have an option not to import the JPEG dupes, and if I want to avoid this the only choice is to manually delete all JPEGs from the card before importing (what a pain). So ideally I'd like to stop shooting JPEGs altogether. I hope this is possible.

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[jdlaing]

Not at the present time. I suspect the JPEG is used for the preview on the rear screen.

Maybe it will get the option of RAW only with a firmware update in the future.

[Eoin]

This may sound stupid but, on the import panel in aperture why don't you use the sort option in the bottom left hand corner of the window. I believe the options are file size, file name, image date. Select file size and it should order your files keeping the larger files together then just click on the first raw and shift click on the last raw to select all the raws in between and click on import.

[jason]

Or if you are on a mac - just type '.RAW' into the searchbar and it will then show just those. Then just import as normal.

 

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ooops ! That only works with Lightroom.

 

Regards

[dugby]

Not at the present time. I suspect the JPEG is used for the preview on the rear screen.

Maybe it will get the option of RAW only with a firmware update in the future.

 

James is correct. Users would not be happy to shoot RAW without seeing a copy of the image on the L1 LCD.

 

Maybe the "JPEG associated with the RAW" could have been smaller like that from the D2.

[John Maio]

James is correct. Users would not be happy to shoot RAW without seeing a copy of the image on the L1 LCD.

 

Maybe the "JPEG associated with the RAW" could have been smaller like that from the D2.

 

I'm curious as to how Canon or Nikon does it. When I shoot RAW only on my 5D I still see the results on the LCD, but just get the RAW (CR2) file when I import the images. Obviously, the camera embeds a viewable image that can be seen.

 

I don't see this as a big problem for Panasonic/Leica to emulate.

[dugby]

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I'm curious as to how Canon or Nikon does it. When I shoot RAW only on my 5D I still see the results on the LCD, but just get the RAW (CR2) file when I import the images. Obviously, the camera embeds a viewable image that can be seen.

 

I don't see this as a big problem for Panasonic/Leica to emulate.

 

I can't speak for the 5D. But I can say for a Canon Rebel and Nikon D80, that a couple of friends have, that a JPEG is created and transferred from their cameras, with the associated RAW.

 

Is there a special/new feature with the 5D that allows RAW with no JPEG ....?

[John Maio]

I can't speak for the 5D. But I can say for a Canon Rebel and Nikon D80, that a couple of friends have, that a JPEG is created and transferred from their cameras, with the associated RAW.

 

Is there a special/new feature with the 5D that allows RAW with no JPEG ....?

 

Its just a bunch of image.CR2 files on the CF card - no duplicate copies in JPG unless I tell the camera to make both. I believe a viewable image is embedded in the RAW file, but its not a separate JPG. I thought they all worked this way

[spylaw4]

I have a similar problem. Sometimes taking a mix of RAW (+associated jpeg) and JPEG only on the same card. I only want to import into Lightroom the RAWs and solo JPEgs, so I wrote an Automator workflow to separate the RAWs from JPEGs, then compare the two files. JPEGs with the same file name (i.e. from a RAW) are split off so I import no duplicate pictures. As Lightroom V1 can do things Beta4 could not, I am modifying it to take account of the extra import options.