[davemac]

Originally Posted by maxthecollie

Today we walked from Crown Point to Clowbridge and back. I have tried shooting in RAW ( I dont know what it means) on the advice of my son who says they can be edited better. I have been playing around with Lighroom 5 for editing. Any comments good or bad would be welcome.
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I think it gives a better understanding of whats happening in the camera if you give RAW a go. I tried it myself for a while, RAW means the camera captures what it sees without any compression or conversion, this gives you the scope to edit better, you then have to convert it to JPEG for programs to see it. However if you shoot in JPEG format, the camera software when you take a picture, looses data at the dark end and light end to reduce the size of the picture, it then converts it to JPEG format internally. I have simplified the explanation so I didn't confuse myself.