To demonstrate this I put my Canon 30D on "RAW + Jpg (fine)" mode, which records both a RAW file and a Jpeg file with one push of the shutter button. I then took a picture that was underexposed by 1 stop. (Translation = it was deliberately taken so that it was a little too dark.) Then I opened the RAW file in DPP (Canon's RAW software and brightened it by 1 stop). Then I opened up the original Jpg file in Gimp and brightened it by 1 stop as well. I then took 100% crops (small pieces of the photo so they could be compared at full size) of both and here's the result:
(click on the image to go to Flickr page where the full size version can be seen)
...I welcome critique of the test as well as discussion about the outcome in comments here, on my Flickr page, or on the Photography_Beginners yahoogroup.
4 comments:
It appears as if the RAW had sharpening done to it. The Jpeg is definately not as sharp in the large image.
OR ... did the Jpeg trash the image that much ?
Yep, the jpg degraded the image that much.
aren' you kinda defeating the purpose of this example by adjusting each photo in diffrent programs. this could be an example of cannon vs gimp couldn't it? just sayin.
I don't have one program that can edit both the Raw and jpg versions of the image, so this was the best I could do, but I think its representative. If you have proof otherwise, please post a link!
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