[Digikam-users] Preview and editing of raw

Jürgen Scholz juergen at kernkraft400.com
Sun Sep 28 22:39:47 BST 2008


> no reason to shoot in RAW and try to reproduce something that the  
> manufacturer took a lot of care and money to produce (that  
> particular recipe is hard to beat). I rather take the jpgs, convert  
> them to a lossless format like png and be happy with it.
Why are you doing that? The filesize probably increases and you don't  
gain any quality. Since the "compression loss" happens when the  
(processed) RAW data is compressed into the jpeg format. The  
conversion to png can't undo the compression loss.

bye,
  juergen



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