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Alastair Norcross
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Mike Engles wrote:

Alastair Norcross wrote:

Mike Engles wrote:

Wry smile!

Hmm. OK then. If that's the only response you have when I take the trouble to explain things in detail, I suppose I shouldn't have bothered.

Wry smile, because using any free image viewer that can extract the embedded jpeg in the RAW file, means that you can post a file straight out of the camera, obviously subject to what ever settings you have as a Picture style. DPP uses these settings as a basis

Also I imagine ALL RAW processors have a minimum setting that does almost nothing at all,

What on earth do you mean by "does almost nothing at all"? All RAW converters do lots of stuff. It seems that you prefer the ones that do lots of stuff with the result that the images look soft. That's not doing less than other ones, it's just doing different things. You seem to be assuming that's there's such a thing as how the image looks without processing. As I've tried to explain, that's simply nonsense. There's just different kinds of processing. You're trying to make out that your preferences are somehow 'purer' or closer to how the image 'really looks', whatever that might mean (nothing at all, actually).

as well as export the jpeg. No one is really confident or brave enough to post basic RAW images,

How many times do I have to tell you, there's no such thing as 'basic RAW images'. RAW data is always processed to make images. There's nothing inherently more basic about one way of processing than another.

so they make all sorts of excuses for not doing so.

No, you seem to be asking people to process their images the way you like them to look, rather than the way they like them to look. Why would anyone do that? You can process your own images whatever way you want to, but don't demand that we share your preferences, and don't pretend that your preferences somehow correspond to the 'real' or 'unprocessed' image. There is no such thing.

It is pretty much like going to see your favourite band live on stage and finding out that they cannot play and their records are studio trickery.

Most images posted nowadays are trickery, I'm sorry to say.

No, it's me who's sorry for engaging in this inane debate. You're welcome to your own preferences. Why are you trying to justify them with ridiculous claims about what images look like 'unprocessed'?

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