Digital Photography For Beginners - Which File Format To Use - JPEG, TIFF Or RAW!
In this Digital Photography for Beginners article we are going to look at file formats. In the days when film was the only option, photographs would be captured onto light sensitive film. Then, after development in the darkroom, a negative would be produced. With digital photography, this process takes place with the images stored as a digital file. For viewing, the file is decoded - and there are 3 main types of file used - JPEG, TIFF and RAW.
Rawzor Launches Software for Lossless Compression of Camera RAW Images for Mac OSX
Rawzor brings to Apple Mac OSX its lossless RAW image compression software. Saving 20% to 60% storage space without any loss in image quality or meta-data and making it easier to manage, backup and transfer large raw photos while retaining original RAW file format.
How to Deal With Proprietary Formats Of Digital Cameras
Digital photography has conquered the world. Consumer cameras are very affordable and easy-to-use. Every grandma has one to take photos of the grandkids and flowers in her garden. Such cameras produce TIFF or JPEG images that can be later processed or printed. But professional photographers prefer professional solutions. Prosumer or professional cameras provide much better results but output RAW files. RAW files contain unprocessed data as it was captured by the sensor of the digital camera. It being known that every large company selling professional digital cameras develops its own proprietary raw format. Nikon introduced NEF (Nikon Electronic Format). Canon's raw format is CRW. The proprietary raw image format used by Olympus digital cam...
Learning Nikon Capture NX 2.0 Gets Even Easier with Tutorial Videos from Luminescence of Nature Press
Luminescence of Nature Press now offers video companions to "The Photographer's Guide to Capture NX2", the popular photography eBook by Jason P. Odell, Ph.D. Each of the 17 video files is available from the Luminescence of Nature Press online store via electronic download for the low price of $1.99 USD per title. Each video is a high-resolution QuickTime movie narrated by the author, Dr. Jason P. Odell.
Photo Recovery Made Easy: Now with RAW Support
Hetman Software announces the release of Hetman Photo Recovery, a tool to recover lost and deleted digital pictures. Featuring easy recovery of digital pictures in a variety of formats, Hetman Photo Recovery adds support for RAW images by major camera manufacturers, introducing full pre-recovery preview of RAW images and implementing signature-search algorithms to recover RAW files from badly damaged, formatted and inaccessible media.