XZ -10 with RAW

[Halina123]

My XZ -10 has received a new lease of life since I started shooting raw. It has stopped my GAS attacks.

The jpegs developed using OV3 look sharper, have more detail and less colour bleed in bright sunshine then the OOC jpegs.

In fact it has now become my first choice camera for carrying about everyday. Small light and very flexible.

 

[elliottnewcomb]

Didn't know abut it, so I looked it up, that camera has a nice combo of size, bright lens and range.

I get to the verge of trying RAW, then, having seen a lot of poorly processed RAW shots by some, I never jump in. With my poor memory, and lack of advanced Jpeg PP skills I worry I won't develop RAW PP skills to get better results.

How have you found the experience using OV3? Are there default processing choices that you can do prior to learning more later?

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Elliott

 

[Halina123]

Didn't know abut it, so I looked it up, that camera has a nice combo of size, bright lens and range.

I get to the verge of trying RAW, then, having seen a lot of poorly processed RAW shots by some, I never jump in. With my poor memory, and lack of advanced Jpeg PP skills I worry I won't develop RAW PP skills to get better results.

How have you found the experience using OV3? Are there default processing choices that you can do prior to learning more later?

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Elliott

The reason I started shooting raw, is often I had problems with the jpegs having the desired white balance and colour balance in general.

When shooting I have to deal with composition, exposure, focusing, aperture/shutter speed or use auto mode. The colour balance is an extra thing to think about. I travel light and dont carry any reference white cards. With raw it's v easy to change the colour balance later. Much easier than editing the jpeg.

Sometimes the camera jpeg gives me the colour balance I desire, see below and I don't touch the raw.





At other times, especially in wooland scenes the auto Auto WB goes wrong badly. At what I remember as a golden scene, comes out bland.





I then manipulate the raw to get me the colour balance I remember.





My preferred method of working with raw in OV3 is to set all the parameters to the camera settings or (as shot) . From this starting point if I make no changes and just develop the jpeg, by clicking export. I get very close to the camera jpeg.

In reality I make changes to try to improve the camera jpeg. Which is of course the whole reason I shoot raw.