Quote Originally Posted by tkerr


It's still important even using RAW. You just have much more flexibility and can have more fun with your photos now than you could with film prints. With prints you pretty much stuck with what you got, even scanning and trying to edit doesn't do much for them.
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Agreed. No argument there. It's best to try to get close to what you're shooting for. The histogram is my guide for getting close to what I want.


My satire with Ms Tammy was simply to show that no one, and I mean, NO ONE, takes a digital picture without some processing going on (if she shoots jpgs, her camera is 'cooking' them on the inside). Besides, even if no post processing was done, the moment the files were taken to a place like Wal-Mart, they'll cook those images further (as Sean pointed out to me a while back).


Like you said, the flexibility and fun is there with RAW.