cecil33 Posted August 29, 2006 Share #1 Posted August 29, 2006 Advertisement (gone after registration) Did anybody can tell me which setting on the DMR is correct or better. if I take the picture under the daylight. I didn't like to set at automatic setting! The direct setting of the value from a colourmeter or manual setting to a grey card? which one is better? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gvaliquette Posted August 29, 2006 Share #2 Posted August 29, 2006 I presume you are talking about the white-balance setting. If you are using the RAW mode, it simply does not matter: you do all the white balance in PhotoShop. The price to pay is in larger files and reduced memory card capacity: a 1 Gb SD card holds 50 RAW images. Nevertheless, I do all my shooting in RAW mode: the quality and control are that much better. After all, after the cost of the R9, the DMR, and the lenses, what's a few SD cards in the balance. Just shoot RAW, learn to use PhotoShop and all its functions and enjoy your DMR. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptomsu Posted August 31, 2006 Share #3 Posted August 31, 2006 I presume you are talking about the white-balance setting. If you are using the RAW mode, it simply does not matter: you do all the white balance in PhotoShop. The price to pay is in larger files and reduced memory card capacity: a 1 Gb SD card holds 50 RAW images. Nevertheless, I do all my shooting in RAW mode: the quality and control are that much better. After all, after the cost of the R9, the DMR, and the lenses, what's a few SD cards in the balance.Just shoot RAW, learn to use PhotoShop and all its functions and enjoy your DMR. While PS is for sure a way to go, I hate that PS is obviously compressing DNGs from 19M to som 11M while opening the RAW (DNG). Hence I use Capture One Pro, which does not do anything to the original, but allows nicely to do all the adjustments and store only the changing values. So you always have the real original. I agree that RAW is a bit more heavy workflow, but it certainly pays off. After spending all that money for R9/DMR plus lenses and taking all the pain of carrying around this heave equipment, then it is a minimal additional invetsment to take the extra time for a good RAW workflow. Peter Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gvaliquette Posted August 31, 2006 Share #4 Posted August 31, 2006 Peter: I mark my DNR files as Read-Only as soon as I copy them to my computer and save the output of PhotoElements as a new TIFF file in a "processed Images" subdirectory. I therefore always have the DNG original intact. The whole thing then gets burned onto a DVD for archiving. I know nothing about Capture One Pro. Please tell us more. Guy Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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