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I went out yesterday, confident that I was going to calmly get all my settings right, turn off the auto ISO and only use CPL where it made a difference. As always, I left a lot in the frame that I could crop out later, baring in mind I only have a kit lens and trusted what tips I'd picked up from the forum would help me process any underexposed shots in RAW.

What I hadn't expected, was that downloadind the RAW files to the GFs MacBook would result in them being converted to jpg format :bang::bang::bang:

What do I need to load onto her Mac to read and keep RAW files?

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new2me said:
I went out yesterday, confident that I was going to calmly get all my settings right, turn off the auto ISO and only use CPL where it made a difference. As always, I left a lot in the frame that I could crop out later, baring in mind I only have a kit lens and trusted what tips I'd picked up from the forum would help me process any underexposed shots in RAW.

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This is dangerous practise :eek:

You should always aim to fill the frame, preferably doing zero cropping later. You're just throwing away precious image quality.

And recovering under-exposure in post processing will substantially increase noise and reduce shadow detail. It's an emergency procedure to rescue mistakes.
 
I'm still learning and find little gems like this easier to absorb here rather than from a book :thumbs:

HoppyUK said:
You should always aim to fill the frame, preferably doing zero cropping later. You're just throwing away precious image quality.
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As I only have a 18-70mm lens at the moment, I understood it might be better not to zoom all the way because there's more chance of image distortion :thinking:


HoppyUK said:
And recovering under-exposure in post processing will substantially increase noise and reduce shadow detail. It's an emergency procedure to rescue mistakes.
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I'm making plenty of mistakes, so am going along with the practice of under rather than over exposing ;)
 
new2me said:
I'm still learning and find little gems like this easier to absorb here rather than from a book :thumbs:


As I only have a 18-70mm lens at the moment, I understood it might be better not to zoom all the way because there's more chance of image distortion :thinking:

try it and find out, that way you will know


I'm making plenty of mistakes, so am going along with the practice of under rather than over exposing ;)
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Better to aim for perfect exposure :thumbs:
 
new2me said:
I'm still learning and find little gems like this easier to absorb here rather than from a book :thumbs:


As I only have a 18-70mm lens at the moment, I understood it might be better not to zoom all the way because there's more chance of image distortion :thinking:
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:nono:

Zoom, move forward, use a longer lens, fill the frame with the subject at the picture-taking stage.

I'm making plenty of mistakes, so am going along with the practice of under rather than over exposing ;)
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Try to get it right ;)
 
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New2me - the 18-70mm is fantastic lens, arguably one of the best kit lenses there is. Yep, a bit of barrel distortion but nothing that'll make your eye bleed. You're obviously just getting your photographic mojo together - just take shots and worry about things like distortion later on life :lol:

As far as transferring images, I just drag'n'drop to a folder on me desktop - I suspect your GF's mac is automatically opening iPhoto (or similar) when a memory card is plugged in and that a preference needs to be changed as to the import file type. Just manually drag and then you'll be able to open in Preview no problems :)
 
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I took some shots in RAW+Jpeg a few weeks ago and iPhoto just simply didn't recognise the RAW files, only the jpegs. I had to open Aperture to import the rest. I'd like to know what your gf's macbook is doing if you ever figure it out
 
okay specialman, I hear ya ;)
I said in another thread that my failings are 70% due to inexperience, but I will put even more faith in my gear from now and work harder :thumbs:
 
zerodeluxe said:
I just plug the card in and copy over on my Mac - no trouble at all. All RAW files kept intact?

Maybe there is software which comes with the camera you could use instead?
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a Mac will let you see the raw files as thumbnails in the folder and even open them and view them just like they were jpegs. sounds like maybe the computer is configured to auto import files into iPhoto or similar in which case it might just import jpegs or convert for you. either drag the files directly from the card or import from the card within your raw converter . btw I hate iPhoto so disabled all that auto import every bloody picture file crap straight away.
 
I'll have a look at the Mac today; I think I did import them through iphoto, so will bypaas it this time.

By the way, Windows Photo Gallery drives me nuts on my laptop as it opens everytime I import from the camera. I've looked for a simple disable function but no joy. Any ideas?
 
Yeah, try bypassing iPhoto. I don't use it personally. I'm using Photoshop, but may try Aperture soon.

Also, as these guys say, it's best to try and get the exposure as best you can in the camera... maybe just keep shooting and experimenting until you get it right. Okay, no good with something you need to catch quickly, but a landscape image you can just keep going until you get it right.

I know it's not easy though. I'm still learning and get it very wrong sometimes!
 
One thing that may be helpful (maybe not!) is once the memory card is connected to the macbook, open the app called image capture & tell the box (bottom left IIRC) to either open the prog of choice for RAW ( i use LR) or tell it to do nothing then just close image capture. This means iPhoto won't launch every time & rag the raw files about :)

HTH
 
iPhoto works perfectly well with RAW on all my Nikons (D60, 90, 700) and my Canon S90.

Try buying the most recent version, it costs almost nothing via the app store and the most recent version has decent enough adjustments like exposure too :)
 
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