RAW? What doe you mean by 'RAW'???? Really....

Please explain to me what the term, 'RAW' means in photo
lingo.........

Thanks


FLASH

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAW_image_format

 

A RAW image is one which has been subjected to the absolute minimum of
electronic processing in the camera. Think of a RAW file as a digital
version of a film negative that can be processed in different ways to
obtain different results.

If you use JPG images from a digital camera, they will have had things
like sharpening and noise reduction applied in the camera. Taking the
RAW image enables you to do these things in a suitable software
package on your PC/Mac, allowing you far greater control and (in
theory at least) allowing you to obtain a finished image of
significantly higher quality.

If you store the RAW image, at a later date you can process it again
in a different way and have the potential to get an even better
finished image.

 

That's all true, but why do people spell it in all capitals? It's not
an acronym.

 

Who cares. This is a Photography Newsgroup. Maybe we should figure out
how it is said in spanish.

 

Requires A lot of Work.

Cheers,
DuncanC

 

Because it's sometimes used as a file extension. Like saying "EXE file."

I think a more important question is why your letter a's are wearing
little hats. WELL?

 

Excellent!!

 

Shoot CRUDO now, and process it later...

;-)

 

It's not a letter 'a', it's a different letter than an 'a', this is at least
what
I did understand from the Swedisch Alphabeth. But it shure does look
like an 'a'. But then an 0 looks like an 'O'.

ben

 

That's true, it isn't.

I used to work for a company that spelt its name all in capitals. Yet
the name of the company was actually the surname of the founder, so
only the first letter should have been capitalised. It was apparently
done for emphasis. I read a magazine that has its title in capitals,
yet that is just a word that describes the content and therefore
should not have more than the first letter capitalised.

 

Not hats, circles. An a with a hat looks like this: â

That's correct.

 

But even Windows no longer requires extensions (or all of the
file name, for that matter) in upper case. That was a limitation of
MS-DOS, and certain other OS's -- including mainframes, which used a
different characterset, and squeezed more characters into a single word
by using only the six bits needed to represent digits and upper-case.
Some of them even ran some specialized compression on filenames, which
was one factor in what limited the length of the names originally.

Certainly in unix filesystems, filenames are sometimes
upper-case only so they will sort to the beginning of the directory,
since unlike Windows they use a case-sensitive sort.

Enjoy,
DoN.

 

All I see for those letters on my screen are question marks. But then,
I'm using Windows Code Page 1253 (English/Greek).

 

When I say that I take care to raise my voice too.

cheers,
Luke

 

Yes, but just think what interesting cocktail party conversation it would
make.

 

wrote:
: Please explain to me what the term, 'RAW' means in photo
: lingo.........
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Another in a long series off lame-ass posts from the 'gmail' domain. Geez!

j.