What You Need To Know About Shooting In Raw

By Ben Long · Issue: May/June 2008 (v5n3)

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If you own a digital SLR camera, ‘shoot raw’ is one of those phrases that you hear all the time, but what do Raw files give you that JPEG files can’t? The answer is: ‘quite a bit,’ and ben long tells us why.

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Related Tags: raw vs. jpg

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2 Replies to What You Need To Know About Shooting In Raw:

kelly
June 14, 2010 at 9:12 pm

I have a Nikon D90 and when i shoot in RAW format, the file extension is .NEF, which I am unable to open in PE7. Please advise. What am I doing wrong?
- Ed
  June 27, 2010 at 4:34 am
  
  Kelly,
  I use PE7 and have a D300. Here are the steps that I use to open the NEF files. From within the Organizer I first highlight the picture I want. Then I select “quick fix”. This will open the picture in camera RAW 4.5 to manipulate using camera RAW.
  Hope that helps.

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