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Nikon NEF is it lossless

PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 5:33 pm
by kipper
Found this interesting read. Not sure if it's been posted before. If it has delete this thread.

http://www.majid.info/mylos/weblog/2004/05/02-1.html

More on Camera Raw

PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 6:02 pm
by SoCal Steve
An interesting read, although a little discouraging.

There's a complete book on "Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop"
by Bruce Fraser published jointly by Adobe Press and Peachpit Press.
218pgs. List price $35, but I bought it on Amazon.com for $18.

Two of his articles from the book are available as .pdf's at Adobe's website where the Camera Raw plugin is offered.

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/cameraraw.html

PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:00 pm
by stubbsy
Kipper

Thanks for this a really good read. Now I know why my pictures are crap - it's not me it's the lossy RAW format Nikon uses. I'l head out now and buy on of those nice Canon's the author seems to like :D

PostPosted: Mon Feb 21, 2005 7:04 pm
by kipper
I don't think he really likes either of them for using compressed RAWs. He just says Canon does it better.

PostPosted: Tue Feb 22, 2005 7:31 am
by MattC
That was an interesting read, although I see the whole thing as being a little academic. Would I see the difference in my final prints. The answer to that is probably no. It is the prints that are the final objective and most printers will probably not print all of the data in a NEF file.

Cheers

Matt