Thanks, I think --Re: "Raw" for dummies ?

[Judy Seigel <jseigel@panix.com>]

Thanks to all for the good info and advice.  I think though that I'm going 
to have to try it for myself, dammit. Because I suspect that for my 
circumstances and purposes at least some of those refinements are 
irrelevant... tho I sure would have liked more give in washed out 
highlights.  I was grabbing people on the move, who kindly obliged by 
standing still for a few moments, but circumstances didn't permit me to 
say "that background is too sunny, would you please cross the street?" I 
did, BTW, set the camera to "underexpose" about 1/3 stop. (Maybe I should 
have done more.)

Those burnt-out backgrounds, and sometimes faces, or, oh misery, white 
shirts, were the biggest problem. As for "noise,"  I think in the scale I 
was printing, it didn't come through. (Or maybe I liked it?)

I also think part of my resistance to the raw mode was because of the 
volume of the particular project I was doing -- The RNC & its marches. 
That was before gigabyte memory disks were "normal," or anyway available, 
and I would shoot as many as 100 in a day, so file size was an issue.

However, because I didn't use the camera jpeg original, permanent changes 
to camera neg weren't an issue. I made duplicate jpegs to work on & 
if they got screwed up, I could make a new duplicate from the original.

And now I'm going to reread everything. Thanks again.

Judy