Digital Photography 1 on 1: Episode 39: Understanding RAW Files

[thedarkpassenger2312]

best explanation for raw files! thanks a lot!

[sevenmediainc]

GREAT VIDEO HANDS DOWN!! I never understood what RAW file was. but now i do!

[Universeal13]

will see what a raw file can do.

[Universeal13]

where are those areas. The biggest advantage in raw is that you have the quality, even if you got some wrong settings but on lcd screen you thought those were good but on pc monitor you see that you need to do something else well with raw you can. You can increase the quality of the image make it sharper more brighter darkest and if you have b or white areas you can give them shape with a raw file. So if you want to experience the raw shoot in a black area or white with some detail in it and you

[Universeal13]

you can do have b&w on a jpg but be sure you shoot in color then in ps or something that you use you can convert into b&w and still have the color. You also can play with light and other things in jpg. The only problem is that in jpg what you shoot is what you get. If by mistake you didn't put some good settings on your camera and on some area are way too black or way too white well the only thing to get rid of that is to paint but it will not be that good and other thing is crop which depends

[xfire7]

It clears it up just right ,thanks so much for posting this :)

[Tealkoi]

AWESOME.... Thanks so much. Very much appreciate, great video and wonderful ways to explain things.

[nagyart1]

thanks a lot you are the best really and helpful

[Guitarman0]

Great video!

[FirebrandNIRE]

Is that a dent in your Macbook Mark?

[hardertom]

useful video thanks!

[BestUsernameIGot]

Thanks, this is awesome!

[ownleewon7]

Mark Wallace, You rock! I am very well pleased with the progress on my photography thanks to you putting these videos up. Keep up the good work. =0)

[lakhera2008]

Just one word for you Mark "genius"

[morphine4u]

Hi Mark, First thanks for your videos.

I know this is an old video - but i hope you can explain somthing to me. @10:50 you show a slide with levels of light - but if you summ up the culloms, JPEG = 203 and RAW = 3968. I was under the impression that JPEG had 256 and a 12bit RAW had 4096 levels of light.

Can you pleace eksplain this?

And do's the difference in levels of light meen that i can overexposure my RAW with 4 stops and still get a normal JPEG?

[tohjohn2002]

love your video!very informative for newbie like me

[vinsong]

@primalsk8team menu screen norm

[GUILTSS]

Hey Mark, can you do all those RAW editing in Canon's Digital Photo Professional

[burris06]

Thank you!!!! You explain it so well!!

[calvinyjj]

argh...too bad...means to get a nice pic, u need to take RAW everytime?? i dun have that much space there...

[alabamadeafrider]

PLEASE ADD CC for those of us who are deaf! We want to learn like everyone else.The videos are a great source of information and a desire to explore more.

[alabamadeafrider]

PLEASE ADD CC for those of us who are deaf!

[pjos111]

Mark what is the xmp file I see beside the raw file? Can I delete it? Maybe you could do a video to explain? Thanks Paul

[jpb267]

Why Is he screaming at us!!!! AHH  Very informative video, very clear explanation, very helpful..... However, constructive criticism: please use a better Mic so you don't need to scream. Thank you.

[TaurusPresents]

Hi Mark,

Your vids are great!!!

Your explanations are very clear and a great help to work on a higher level.

Thank you.

[aliasangelalias]

I don't know but... I have been shooting Jpeg for a long time and I can still do very good post production work in CS3. I really can't find something that I can't do with Jpeg. I can balance color and change to black and white, saturation, brightness or darkness, leveling, color matching and more. Why would I shoot Raw still? Photoshop came a long way and I can do so much with it with even jpeg format.

[applepiewithtoast]

@aliasangelalias There is no rules when it comes to RAW/JPEG. Some people like JPEG and some like RAW. I always use RAW because it has more information. 

[spongebens]

Great explanation. I understand the advantages of RAW and all that (I shoot in RAW sometimes), but the RAW and JPEG comparisons are a little unfair because the JPEGs are set to black & white in-camera--you most definitely cannot adjust the colors on that!

[elisepatt149]

This really helped! Thanks!

[jona19721]

RAW is for people who can't nail the exposure 'in camera'.

[tbonestalone]

@jona19721 OR.... for every pro out here who is making a living with their photography. But you just go ahead and keep your D300 set to JPEG there bud. Dont forget the auto WB too mate! See you at the next Ken Rockwell seminar!

[xmeerzx]

Well done Mark!

[etx70]

Thanks. My language is Spanish, but my English is very technical for my work. Your explanations are very clear and well understood. You're a great person. I learned a lot. Thanks again.

[logankipgen]

i never get tired of saying this... thank you.... its amazing how you explain these things it sounded so simple...

[gilegraam]

problem people get in rraw v jpeg debate is that you can make a photo in a computer after shooting it in raw which is totally wrong. firstly great photos should be made with camera in jpeg and then when you have a hang of thing use raw for more heavy editing. but if you can't make a great photo in jpeg, raw won't help you.

[RemiIsTrashWolf]

Thanks a lot for doing this, it really helped me understand the concept or raw images and I can't wait to play around with this!

[Y0mki]

Thanks Mark, that was a great video explanation of both files. I've started to shoot in RAW files and I'm loving it but one more Cons about Raw files is taking to much space on the memory card, that's why i'm getting a bigger size compact flash and a little bit faster.

[rosn73]

Thanks

[macysbest]

thank you so much

[acroduster]

RAW rules, though I do take simultaneous jpg's as I shoot. another great video mark, rock on and keep doing what you are doing.

[blueeyevisualize]

One of the most clear cut explanations on the web (articles) or YouTube I have seen yet on raw vs jpeg. Thanks for the clear details and advantages and disadvantages.

[garitd]

You Rule Mark. Thanks for the vids.

[visionaguilar]

Thanks Mark, very clear explanation. As a beginner I mostly shot in jpeg because I wanted to learn to tweak various "ingredients" on my dlsr. Now I begin to appreciate the power of raw. Especially helpful for me was your explanation about the depth of brightness range of raw, and also how post production differ in raw.

[TheBlackSheep2134]

Whoa! echo guys! throw up some Styrofoam or something.

[fazmanicg]

One other thing about Shooting RAW. After shooting a frame, the raw data is also converted to jpeg for your LCD screen. When you look at the LCD, you are actually looking at a jpeg version. Your RAW file may look different when viewing it on your computer.

[mavishill]

very bad 'baking a cake' example, lol

[ostrimissimo]

@mavishill actually yes. But the rest was very good.

[redsonjaxe]

@mavishill yeah...i agree. A stew might have been better.

[MidnightDazzle]

I am taking a trip to Ecuador. I have a canon camera (7d) and only room to bring one or two lenses at most. What would you reccomend for fast paced travel photography?

[AlfabetSoop]

@MidnightDazzle What lenses do you have? If you're going to be shooting far off action, you're going to want a good zoom lens (150 to 300mm), whereas if you're wanting to take pictures of full landscapes you'll want wide-angle lenses (15 to 40mm).

[deathdemon128]

@MidnightDazzle i only have basic ones so, i'd go with a 135mm zoom, and a 50mm 1.8 just in case u need low light