When the JPG format came along over 10 years ago, it was a good space-saver that helped a great deal to foster the development of the World Wide Web as we know it today (oooh, the good old days of gopher and archie, does any of you remember?!).
And even by today’s standards, JPG is still versatile enough so that it has virtually become the standard format for all online digital photography, even to the point that most digital cameras from small point-and-shoot ones up to big DSLRs use JPG as their default format to save images.
But saving all that space comes with its price tag, so in today’s show I’ll take a short look at an alternative: the RAW format.
image: going RAW (”come rain come shine”)
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Got any suggestions for a RAW converter for the Mac? I just went to the pixmantec site and noticed that the RAW shooter essentials are PC only. keep up the great work on the podcasts!
Take care,
Sorry Darin, I’m a PC guy, can’t really help you with the mac side of things. But I suggest you ask some online forums, for example dpreview.com.
Cheers,
Chris