From the course: Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode
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Understanding raw conversion software
From the course: Exploring Photography: Shooting in Raw Mode
Understanding raw conversion software
- If you watched the last chapter, then you've already been through all of the gnarly technical discussion that we need to have. What you saw in that chapter was that when you shoot, the image sensor in your camera produces a lot of numbers that have to be interpreted in a very particular way to produce a finished image. When you shoot in JPEG mode, all of that interpretation is performed by the computer inside your camera. When that process is finished, the camera makes some additional tweaks to the image, compresses the image using the JPEG standard, and writes the result out to its media card. When you shoot with your camera in raw mode, the image sensor still produces a lot of numbers that have to be interpreted in a very particular way to produce a finished image. And just as in JPEG mode, the camera performs all of that interpretation, but it then shows you the resulting image on the camera's screen. However, what it writes to the card is all of those original raw numbers, and a…
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