September 2008
Beginner to intermediate
288 pages
9h 36m
English
Content preview from The Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Companion
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RAW SHOOTING
SHOOTING RAW WITH THE REBEL XSI
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you can give to someone else, then you’ll have to first run the images through
a raw converter.
While this may sound like a hassle, the process is actually not so bad. Raw-
processing software has improved tremendously over the years, including
Canon’s Digital Photo Professional, which was bundled with your camera.
You may have to learn one or two more steps, but once you do, you’ll prob-
ably find that shooting raw is no more difficult than shooting JPEG and is well
worth the extra control.
Shooting Raw with the Rebel XSi
Telling the XSi to shoot raw is very simple; you just select one of the raw options
from the format menu you saw in Chapter 6. After all the JPEG options, you’ll find
two raw options. Raw tells the camera to save a raw file, while Raw + L tells the
camera to save a raw file and a JPEG file. Why would you choose both? e advan-
tage of Raw + JPEG is that when you get home, you have a JPEG file that you can
use right away, without hassling with any raw processing. After you choose your
raw format option of choice, you can start shooting normally.
TIP: Raw + JPEG to Get Dual Advantages
Some people, especially those on tight deadlines, shoot Raw + JPEG because
they need to deliver only JPEG files to their client, and the XSi JPEGs are ex-
cellent quality. So, after a shoot, they can sort through their images, pull out
the ...
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