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Old 31-12-07, 10:12
Chris
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Originally Posted by birdsnapper View Post
What misconceptions?
DSLR=optics+sensor/interpreter+pre-programmed internal computer and comes with a cable you can put into a printer and internal tweak buttons so you can go straight to print. Pana FZ50 is similar if you don't need different lenses.

But you need a 'proper' computer to connect to internet & WPF and optimise images for screen viewing.

You can choose to take over human control after the sensor/interpreter stage, in which case you have a RAW image, which contains all the information the sensor picked up while the shutter was open. Or, you can choose among the pre-programmed modes within the camera and transfer a correspondingly pre-programmed and irreversibly compressed JPG image to the 'proper' computer. It can still be tweaked, but not so much and with more risk of introducing noise and halos.

RAW images that, because light and exposure were correct, need only slight tweak or optimisation, need never be converted. DPP & NX (maybe also CS in .PNG?) save in RAW including the information used in the optimisation and can be printed from direct and used to generate a reduced JPG for forums without affecting the original.

Choice of software and computer become important for difficult images where more processing is needed to get a machine captured image back to what the human eye+brain originally thought worth preserving and sharing. If you want to do that, you have to come to terms with computers.

The choice of camera, computer and software are very personal. Reading reviews and forum debates helps, but maybe not as much as identifying folks whose images are what one aspires to oneself and finding out why they use the particular camera etc they do. WPF is really superb for that.
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