Critique Welcomed One of the reasons I want to shoot RAW

[Dave Moss]

various (32 of 42) by davem45, on Flickr

As a lot of my photography is near water I have always had problems with camera compression to jpeg blowing either the sky or the water im hoping the extra control shooting RAW will help with that the shot above was the best I got out of about 4 shots on the day

 

[Allan Batchelor]

It sure does help Dave you can get a lot more control in PP

 

[Pete Askew]

A fine shot anyway Dave but raw will certainly give you more options.

 

[Kev Pugh]

Go RAW Dave you won't look back

 

[Dave Moss]

Thanks everyone I think my plan is to go somewhere I have shot a few times and shoot just RAW the first time so I have a previous reference but force myself to process them rather than shoot jpeg +raw

 

[Ahmad Bhai]

RAW veg Which camera Dave, the naturalness of the scene & your subtle processing is soothing.

 

[Dave Moss]

I'm getting a Fuji HS30 at the end of the month for which I have 3 reasons

1 I am use to using a Bridge camera and when I'm out I like the versatility rather than having to swap lenses (which might be difficult when Im holding the dogs lead near a railway) With the HS30 I get a lot of DSLR functions in a bridge (and that even includes a manual twist zoom and manual focus ring) so is a logical step the X-S1 is almost double the price for a very similar spec

2) i dropped my S4080 over Christmas so need a new camera

3) I want to start shooting RAW and most bridge cameras only shoot Jpeg there are 3 others that I have found shoot Raw and all are nearly double the price A Canon SX50 the afore mentioned X-S1 and a panasonic which after reading the reviews went straight out of the reckoning The Canon uses a powered lens so again was scrapped as after this I want to go to DSLR (Battery life because of the lens is half the fuji's) so having got use to using the manual zoom on the HS using DSLR lenses will be normal to use

 

[Julian de'Courcy]

Like this a lot Dave and the sepia version on flickr is also very good.

 

[Beth Carter]

raw would help, but so would a graduated neutral density filter. used together you'll really have things under control.

 

[Dave Moss]

Thanks Julian and Beth another reason for getting the HS is it will take a standard Filter (58mm)

 

[Beth Carter]

Thanks Julian and Beth another reason for getting the HS is it will take a standard Filter (58mm)

skip the standard filter and get a square filter set and a 58mm ring. something like this. that way you can adjust the filter up and down so it's on your horizon line.

 

[Dave Moss]

Something I already own for my old SLR didnt even think about using it with digital must dig it out of the camera bag even have a 58mm ring!!