Jastrow wrote:
[...] native RAW
pictures are unusable if undeveloped. Which means the user has to buy a
software and develop each of their pictures. I know you can batch
process your pictures but still, it takes time.
Worse, it's not a totally mechanizable process - typically the
photographer needs to exercise some judgement as to how to produce an
image that corresponds to what the scene actually looked like when the
data was captured. Given that a couple of my pictures have been mangled
by well-meaning people that weren't actually there when I took them, I'm
a little skeptical that random wikignomes will be able to do the right
thing. I could see raw files uploaded alongside an "official" image -
the official image is what the photographer thinks the scene really
looked like, and republishers could then tinker with the raw file as
desired, whether it is to match the official image, or to alter it to
meet some other need.
(How does cropping figure into all this? Almost every one of my uploads
is cropped, sometimes by quite a lot. Does anybody really want multiple
megabytes of out-of-focus background shrubbery? :-) )
Stan