Hi,
I'd mentioned having come around to using Aperture 3 to process RAW files in a different discussion, BBW asked me for clarification in a PM, and, after a couple of back and forth messages, asked me to post this here on the forum for the other legions of relative beginners to digital photo processing who have just bought an E-PL1 and are going through the whole RAW vs JPEG vs RAW+JPEG debate. As a little background, I'd done a lot of B&W photography and a LOT of darkroom work in my youth. Turned into a point and shooter once we had kids, made the transition to digital in the point and shoot world, and am just now getting back into photography as a bit more of a hobby again with the M43 system. I don't have any desire to deal with a DSLR system, but I wanted better cameras, lenses, and image quality than I could get from even my very nice point and shoot.
I'd only shot digitally with jpegs until a few weeks ago when I got the E-PL1 (doing minor tweaks with iphoto) and didn't understand the benefits of shooting with RAW. Being the inquisitive sort, I started shooting RAW + JPEG to try to figure it out. And then I found that Apple doesn't support RAW from the E-PL1 yet. So I had to solve that problem. And then I realized that iphoto and Olympus Master 2 has relatively limited processing options, so I decided to try the Aperture under their 30 day free trial program since it dealt in the basic Apple conventions that I was already familiar and comfortable with.
This isn't real short, so I'm gonna break it up into a couple more posts:
I'd mentioned having come around to using Aperture 3 to process RAW files in a different discussion, BBW asked me for clarification in a PM, and, after a couple of back and forth messages, asked me to post this here on the forum for the other legions of relative beginners to digital photo processing who have just bought an E-PL1 and are going through the whole RAW vs JPEG vs RAW+JPEG debate. As a little background, I'd done a lot of B&W photography and a LOT of darkroom work in my youth. Turned into a point and shooter once we had kids, made the transition to digital in the point and shoot world, and am just now getting back into photography as a bit more of a hobby again with the M43 system. I don't have any desire to deal with a DSLR system, but I wanted better cameras, lenses, and image quality than I could get from even my very nice point and shoot.
I'd only shot digitally with jpegs until a few weeks ago when I got the E-PL1 (doing minor tweaks with iphoto) and didn't understand the benefits of shooting with RAW. Being the inquisitive sort, I started shooting RAW + JPEG to try to figure it out. And then I found that Apple doesn't support RAW from the E-PL1 yet. So I had to solve that problem. And then I realized that iphoto and Olympus Master 2 has relatively limited processing options, so I decided to try the Aperture under their 30 day free trial program since it dealt in the basic Apple conventions that I was already familiar and comfortable with.
This isn't real short, so I'm gonna break it up into a couple more posts: