Which Lens

[wdwmagic]

I think I may be the only person who doesn't like to shoot raw. My Nikon d80 throws out 5MB files on JPG-Fine and I have no problem working with any of the files on photoshop. Whats the appeal?

On a lot of bodies, shooting raw gives marginally less noisy and sharper images (although like all things, very subjective, and some don't agree).

RAW also gives greater flexibility in the post production, specifically with white balance, color, sharpness and other adjustments.

As you say though, JPGs can work fine for 99% of scenarios.

 

[ddbowdoin]

On a lot of bodies, shooting raw gives marginally less noisy and sharper images (although like all things, very subjective, and some don't agree).

RAW also gives greater flexibility in the post production, specifically with white balance, color, sharpness and other adjustments.

As you say though, JPGs can work fine for 99% of scenarios.

Ive never noticed a difference, but now I'll have to play around and pay attention even closer. I was working on a bunch of vintage shots last night, came out great. I hate the file size of raw images though, I'll need a 1TB harddrive soon!

 

[wdwmagic]

Ive never noticed a difference, but now I'll have to play around and pay attention even closer. I was working on a bunch of vintage shots last night, came out great. I hate the file size of raw images though, I'll need a 1TB harddrive soon!

Yeah the file size is a really problem, both during the shoot on the memory card and once you get everything back and stored on a drive.

 

[ddbowdoin]

Yeah the file size is a really problem, both during the shoot on the memory card and once you get everything back and stored on a drive.

I'd love a new body, money is short these days. The D80 is a pretty solid camera but it lacks some performance. Get what you pay for I suppose.

 

[Deadmanwalking]

I don't think I've seen anyone mention the problem of the shallow depth of field you will have as you get the quicker lenses. My own experience has been with a 50mm 1.2 and a 50mm 1.8 lenses... I would say that the 1.8 is quick enough... and is a better trade off when shooting from the hip. At the extremes of 1.2 or even 1.4 you will have little room for error in the focus and if your sensor focuses on a nose you could end up with out of focus ears.