Just throwing it out there… but the use of ‘there’ is perfectly acceptable when used after an indefinite singular antecedent. This avoids the taxing inclusion of the definite masculine and feminine forms (his and her). No correction was necessary and I’m surprised nobody noticed that until now.

Thanks Federico – then I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree. Why would the camera makers give you a Raw option if their JPG was superior? Sorry I don’t agree, but that’s fine.

Oh good I’m glad!

That’s your call on it. Raw format allows you for so much more options to edit, correct and adjust your images.

Thanks for sharing this information

Unfortunately, the RAW format (and what’s in it) is dependent on camera manufacturer. For what it’s worth, the wikipedia article on RAW states “There is no single raw format; formats can be similar or radically different. Different manufacturers use their own proprietary and typically undocumented formats, which are collectively known as raw format.” My point is that this program may work for some cameras and not for others.

Thanks for your tip. I think I will end up with Lightroom. I used the trial and will probably buy it.

The latest version of Canon’s DPP is very good but difficult to understand and use compared to LR. You want to visit the Canon website periodically to download the most current information – including updates to DPP – for your camera.

If you try the michael tapes design program, you will find that you pull the jpg right out of the RAW image file… not a seperately stored image on the SD card.
Simply MOVE or COPY your RAW image to your computer (Windows based) and then after installing/registering the InstantJPGfromRaw program, open Windows Explorer, find one of the images you just moved to your computer and right click on it… the option for Instant JPG is now available. Click on this and you immediately have a jpg of the same name available.
I do believe (but have not fully tested this) that IF you selected any of the built-in camera settings they will be processed into this jpg.

Eric,

What you said makes sense, and I can verify for at least 2 cameras (Panasonic and Nikon) that I’ve had to do data recovery on the SD card on. The Panasonic (Lumix G5) saved JPG separately (and hidden) and at a much reduced resolution than RAW. This JPG is really only for use inside the camera, and might be reduced to the LCD resolution to speed up preview on that screen.

Link to the program is here: https://michaeltapesdesign.com/instant-jpeg-from-raw.html

It’s free, but you have to register to get it.

It’s true that the RAW image ignores the built-in camera effects but they are stored in the RAW image and the JPG image is stored in the RAW image!
Search and read up on InstantJPGfromRAW.

Every RAW image you take with your DSLR contains a JPG version of your photo. No one ever talks about this.

A RAW image cannot be viewed without some sort of conversion first. Your camera has to run the RAW image through it’s conversion algorithm before it can display that image on the LCD screen. What you see at that point is a JPG rendition of that RAW image you just took.

From what I understand (could be wrong here) most, if not all DSLR cameras, shooting in RAW do not allow you to capture the in-camera effects because RAW is just image data and RAW ignores those camera settings.
BUT, when the in-camera algorithm is run to display your image on the LCD screen, those settings ARE applied to the JPG and saved in the JPG that is part of your RAW file.

You can verify this by downloading a program called InstantJPGfromRAW and run it against your RAW image.

One very important note to take away from this is that when you shoot in RAW, you have both the RAW image and a JPG image available at all times. So, in my opinion, you don’t need to shoot JPG or RAW + JPG ever again…. IF you do any post processing.

See my recent post…. it IS possible to shoot capture those built-in camera effects AND shoot RAW.

It would but I’m not a huge fan of that program, it’s not so great.

I haven’t used it but many do and is a good option. You may also want to look at DarkTable. It is opensource also and is more like Lightroom than PS. https://www.darktable.org/

yes that is true of most “scene” settings including shooting in monochrome – good notice

I thought I’d try one of the creative camera settings. I have a Panasonic Lumix G5 and it has a “star-effect” setting. While I would prefer using a star filter for this, I don’t have one for the G5. I also shot combined RAW+JPEG.

The RAW images do not have the star filter effect applied, but JPEG images do. There’s also a slight color shift between RAW and JPEG, likely due to conversion from 16 bit to 8 bit.

If you like to use built-in camera effects, your camera might not save the effect in RAW mode. This makes sense, as it should be raw sensor data (hence the name), without added processing by camera software.

I think that’s the key word: lossy. In computer terms, in order to get a JPEG 5 to 10 times smaller than a RAW file, you have to lose information. It starts with a drastic 16-bit to 8-bit conversion. This cuts the storage space in half, but cuts the data values by a factor of 256 (65536 divided by 256). This might be too technical for some of your readers to understand, but it’s a lot of color information that’s lost.

By comparison, in audio I wouldn’t dream of recording in 8-bit. The noise level is much too high, and it will always be there!. There are some great audio editing programs to reduce noise, but they cannot recover audio that isn’t there to begin with. The same holds true for digital imaging. Once you convert to JPEG, whether in camera or in processing, you throw out a lot of data that cannot be recovered from the JPEG file.

I can appreciate photographers that use JPEG for a quick upload to Instagram, email, or twitter, or, if you want a proof to email a client. But, save the RAW image, too. I’ve had my camera set for both RAW+JPEG, but I find myself using the RAW image in PhotoShop. I hardly touch the JPEG.

Having said all that, I know some people can’t hear the difference between WAV and MP3, just like some can’t see the difference between RAW and JPEG. Those of us who edit audio and images have more scrutiny and want more creative control.

De donde vive?