Refurbished camera received - all three lenses take soft pix

[rick.osgood]

That does look better than what I had. Thanks!

 

[Horoscope Fish]

That does look better than what I had. Thanks!

That was no real effort at all and I was working with a small JPG image file. When working with the raw file there's sooooo much more latitude; it's just night and day different.

If I remember correctly, something on the order of 70% of the available data is lost once a raw file is converted to JPG.

 

[gustafson]

If I remember correctly, something on the order of 70% of the available data is lost once a raw file is converted to JPG.

Didn't know that, that's a staggering number!

 

[Horoscope Fish]

Didn't know that, that's a staggering number!

Exact numbers will vary of course, but yeah, that was my overarching point: You give up a LOT when you decide to post-process in .JPG instead of raw.

 

[rick.osgood]

Exact numbers will vary of course, but yeah, that was my overarching point: You give up a LOT when you decide to post-process in .JPG instead of raw.

I have only had Lightroom and PhotShop for a few days and between learning those apps and the new camera I go glassy eyed sometimes.

 

[Horoscope Fish]

I have only had Lightroom and PhotShop for a few days and between learning those apps and the new camera I go glassy eyed sometimes.

Well that's totally normal.

Just remember, "It's more process than event."

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Try shooting both JPG and RAW for now until you learn Lightroom better. Apply the corrections I posted earlier in your camera and that will help make your JPG photos look better. This way you will get nice looking photos now and give you time to work on the RAW photos in lightroom. Don't even open Photoshop yet. You have enough to work on without adding that yet. The goal is to eventually move to shooting RAW only and getting better results with RAW and Lightroom than you do with the JPG coming out of the camera.

No one here started off the first week getting it all right. LOL.

Remember "When eating an elephant take one bite at a time."

 

[gustafson]

Amen to that. I'm coming upon a year, and feel like I've barely scratched the surface.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Amen to that. I'm coming upon a year, and feel like I've barely scratched the surface.

I have been at it for 38 years now and I learn new things about photography just about every week. I am retired and I do work pretty hard at my photography.

 

[Blacktop]

Try shooting both JPG and RAW for now until you learn Lightroom better. Apply the corrections I posted earlier in your camera and that will help make your JPG photos look better. This way you will get nice looking photos now and give you time to work on the RAW photos in lightroom. Don't even open Photoshop yet. You have enough to work on without adding that yet. The goal is to eventually move to shooting RAW only and getting better results with RAW and Lightroom than you do with the JPG coming out of the camera.

No one here started off the first week getting it all right. LOL.

Remember "When eating an elephant take one bite at a time."

Why would anyone eat an elephant? Isn't that against the law?:indecisiveness: