Amur LeopardCanon 350D f5.6 @ 1/500sec 100-400mm Canon IS zoom lens
The perceived wisdom that if you’re after the best quality output from your digital files then you should be recording your images as RAW files. As I said in my previous post RAW is not an acronym but in fact is a good description of the file itself.
It is a simply just what it says a RAW file has no parameters applied to it. These files have a huge amount of flexibility and when processing you can alter these parameters without losing the original data. If you shoot RAW you are recording a file with a huge amount of potential, whereas a JPEG has far less flexibility, unfortunately a RAW file must be processed.
RAW files allow to change the parameters such as brightness, white balance, picture style, hue saturation and sharpness, while you can alter the individual red, green and blue colour channels.
If your camera has the ability then I recommend that you shoot in RAW format, unfortunately these are larger files then JPEG so you are able to store less on your memory cards, but it is worth it. The cost of memory cards has drastically fallen over the last few years, so have a few spare in your bag.
In the next article, I will explain the digital work flow.
you lost me at the title.