I have a new Sony ax65 SLT camera and I would like to know if Iphotos converts raw images into jpeg better than if I were just to shoot in jpeg mode and let the camera compress it all
I know you can get photoshop or lighthouse to convert raw images but from what I have read it can be a bit of a process on a imac
Rainer,
for the following cameras is the raw format supported in iPhoto: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5955
I cannot find your camera "Sony ax65 SLT" on the list of supported camera. Is "Sony ax65 SLT" the same model as "Sony Alpha SLT-A65"? Then it would be supported, but if not, you cannot use the RAW format from the camera directly with iPhoto.
and I would like to know if Iphotos converts raw images into jpeg better than if I were just to shoot in jpeg mode and let the camera compress it all
RAW developement is widely a matter of taste. iPhoto uses the same RAW support as the professional application Aperture, and it is really good. But since it is specific for each camera, it is hard to give a general answer.
I know you can get photoshop or lighthouse to convert raw images but from what I have read it can be a bit of a process on a imac
Shooting in RAW is advantagous, if you need to do a lot of editing. But if you are not planning to do much editing and like the way your camera developes the raw, shoot JPEG. This way you will see directly when taking the photo, how it will turn out and are not in for surprises later. If you want to use in-camera settings and special programs your camera offers, you can only use them when shooting JPEG.
Rainer,
for the following cameras is the raw format supported in iPhoto: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5955
I cannot find your camera "Sony ax65 SLT" on the list of supported camera. Is "Sony ax65 SLT" the same model as "Sony Alpha SLT-A65"? Then it would be supported, but if not, you cannot use the RAW format from the camera directly with iPhoto.
and I would like to know if Iphotos converts raw images into jpeg better than if I were just to shoot in jpeg mode and let the camera compress it all
RAW developement is widely a matter of taste. iPhoto uses the same RAW support as the professional application Aperture, and it is really good. But since it is specific for each camera, it is hard to give a general answer.
I know you can get photoshop or lighthouse to convert raw images but from what I have read it can be a bit of a process on a imac
Shooting in RAW is advantagous, if you need to do a lot of editing. But if you are not planning to do much editing and like the way your camera developes the raw, shoot JPEG. This way you will see directly when taking the photo, how it will turn out and are not in for surprises later. If you want to use in-camera settings and special programs your camera offers, you can only use them when shooting JPEG.
thankyou leonie you were a great help
and to answer your question my camera is a sony alpha slt-ax65
i have just done some comparison test with shooting in Jpeg and in RAW using the same shot and settings for both. I put the on iphoto and to be honest I couldnt see any difference between the camera's jpeg and the iphoto's converversion of the raw shot.
I'm only a beginner photographer and want to be able to take the best photo's I can and everywhere I read RAW is the way to go because you get every detail eg, JPEG is 4 or 8bit or something like that and RAW is 3 times that which apparently is quite alot.
I'd like to enlarge any great photo's I hope to take to a fair size.
anyway thanks for your reply sounds like you know a bit a photography and thought I'd just share what I want to do
While you are still experimenting, you could set your camera to shoot RAW & JPEG, if the camera supports this. Then backup the RAW and work mainly with the JPEGs. If you come across JPEG, where you see, that you need the better photometric resolution of the RAW, because there is not enough detail in the shadows or highlight areas, you can still retrieve the RAW files.
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