Shooting Raw Stills - HOW?!

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tommygdawg

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Okay, okay. Maybe I'm just a little bit slow, but I can not figure out how to shoot stills in Raw mode. I don't have my manuals and I'd realllllly like to figure this out, but from what I can tell, turning the dial doesn't do it, and I can't find menu options. Any help would be greatly appreciated! :)



Thanks!
 
The link to the manual is in the sticky FAQ a couple of links up from your post....
 
stick it in stills settings and then change from jpeg to H(igh) RAW with quality all the way up just like you would do if you were to change from FHD to SHD. or you could just go into the menu under stills/picture not movie and change it there. you ahve to be in stills mode othewise menu will not show.
 
tell me if you notice more noise shooting RAW. i have recently noticed with mine Jpeg compression produces cleaner images than RAW in regards to banding and fixed pattern noise. I think its because it applies noise reduction where as it doesn't with RAW.
 
Hey there,


I don't think I've noticed more noise, but then I never pixel peeped my jpg's. However, I would say that using Jpeg compression as a way of getting rid of noise is not a good way to go about it :P
 
yeah i would much prefer clean RAW but from what i see jpeg is always cleaner. no need to pixel peep, open the two side by side and you can see the difference, especially in the shadows.
 
Yeah, maybe. But if it really is the Jpeg compression getting rid of noise, then you're not really getting better quality. I'd rather have a noisier raw image, it gives me more to work with.
 
I would much rather have noise too but not when its banding fixed pattern noise. I think noise reduction is also playing some role in it. it's so hard to get rid of in RAW. do you have any tips? give me grain noise anyday..lol
 
Banding only shows up on things that are really underexposed. I haven't had too much of an issue with it in photos to be honest. But I'm not sure of any great ways to get rid of it if you have it aside from more properly lighting your scenes...which in photography can sometimes be an issue on spur of the moment.

Generally I'd recommend faster lenses, lower iso's, and shooting as wide open as possible with lower shutter speeds. It tends to show up more with faster shutter speeds because the photos have less time to expose, especially if you're cranking the ISO.
 
thanks for the tips.

i shoot with good old fast zeiss glass, even trying to stick to native 320ISO. still learning i guess. I think i have trained my eyes to see it unfortunately.

From what I have read, fixed pattern banding isn't as bad on the older G1 model and GF1's. considering picking one of the two up just for photography.
 
Just save your money and buy a Canon :) The only issue with that though is that cross-compatibility with lenses can tend to be a pain. Oh and I'd love to have some Zeiss glass, gimme!
 
zeiss is a curse i tell ya....my precious!

Just discovered noise reduction in lightroom =) where have you been all my life.
 
MR Fanny said:
tell me if you notice more noise shooting RAW. i have recently noticed with mine Jpeg compression produces cleaner images than RAW in regards to banding and fixed pattern noise. I think its because it applies noise reduction where as it doesn't with RAW.
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It is impossible to compare JPEG and RAW quality, you can only compare JPEG with a "Converted RAW to other fomrat"

Because RAW is not an image, it is pure data that your simply feeding into a RAW development/converter software, you can apply there as much as NR as you see fit (depending on the converter) i use adobe camera raw ACR, it has very nice noise reduction settings, I find RAW to be much sharper and shoot exclusively with RAW,

All RAW must undergo NR, its a part of the system (the camera applies always NR to jpeg's)
 
tyrone_bigsby said:
The Nik Dfine plug-in is where it's at. :)
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Will look into that. What do you think about Topaz Denoise?

frosti7 said:
It is impossible to compare JPEG and RAW quality, you can only compare JPEG with a "Converted RAW to other fomrat"

Because RAW is not an image, it is pure data that your simply feeding into a RAW development/converter software, you can apply there as much as NR as you see fit (depending on the converter) i use adobe camera raw ACR, it has very nice noise reduction settings, I find RAW to be much sharper and shoot exclusively with RAW,

All RAW must undergo NR, its a part of the system (the camera applies always NR to jpeg's)
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Thanks. Makes alot of sense. It seams easier to apply NR to noise that is grain like compared to fixed pattern noise that somehow needs alot more NR to get rid of though.
 
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