{"id":361,"date":"2012-09-15T01:57:25","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T05:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/?p=361"},"modified":"2012-09-15T01:57:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T05:57:25","slug":"lx7-and-raw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/15\/lx7-and-raw\/","title":{"rendered":"LX7 and RAW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sold my Olympus E-P1 and replaced it with the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008MB719C\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B008MB719C&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=joshwardelsmi-20\" target=\"new\">Panasonic LX7<\/a>,<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=joshwardelsmi-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B008MB719C\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> it&#8217;s much more portable and has a great f1.4 lens. I shoot RAW on my cameras, and the smaller sensor size of the LX7 benefits even more from this. Turning to my typical models (my dogs), I put it to the test, temporarily setting the camera to save both a RAW and a JPEG of each photo.<\/p>\n<p>These first two shots are zoomed to 100%, and have identical minimal default processing applied with Lightroom. Note how the jpeg portion loses a ton of detail and unnatural-looking unsharp filtering as compared to the raw portion of each photo:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-364\" title=\"lxraw1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lxraw1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-365\" title=\"lxraw2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lxraw2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Another advantage to RAW is the fact that it contains information well beyond the dynamic range of a jpeg. Here I was playing by mounting my huge Canon flash to the top, which fired at 100% and massively overexposed the photo. The JPEG is a throwaway. But with the RAW, a few simple adjustments bring back much of the blown-out picture and a improperly exposed photo is saved:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-363\" title=\"lx7raw3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lx7raw3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-362\" title=\"lx7raw4\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/lx7raw4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sold my Olympus E-P1 and replaced it with the new Panasonic LX7, it&#8217;s much more portable and has a great f1.4 lens. I shoot RAW on my cameras, and the smaller sensor size of the LX7 benefits even more from this. Turning to my typical models (my dogs), I put it to the test, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jwardell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}