On 22/11/2007, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 21/11/2007, Brianna Laugher brianna.laugher@gmail.com wrote:
So although our works are usually sufficient for web use, it seems clear that we cannot present ourselves as a serious kind of archivist, culture-recording project, without introducing a RAW format and encouraging people to use it.
Careful not to jump two steps there :-)
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Allowing the upload of RAW files would certainly be a good thing (if we have the capacity, which I assume we do), but it'll probably mean that our high-end stuff gets better, not that we make substantially more content publishable.
Correct. The vast majority of people will continue to contribute JPGs, and probably pretty ordinary ones at that. But for the dozens of FP/QI-level contributors, who are probably shooting RAW rather than JPG anyway, it makes sense to ask for and accept RAW from those people.
Point and clicks don't even offer RAW. It's not going to be like "everyone must start using DNG". :)
cheers, Brianna