Linlithgow (JPEG)

This is the last shot I ever made in JPEG. The camera reset itself to defaults after a firmware upgarde, and I forgot to set the file mode after that. This was the first picture I took on that day; as soon as I saw how quickly it was saved, I realized the error and reconfigured the camera; the next and all subseqent pictures in this set were done in raw format. Here's the same scene developed from the raw image. The difference in timestamps is only a couple minutes, so the light couldn't have changed much, nor did I change the photo parameters in the camera — both pictures were shot with the same exposure program and same angle of view. But looking at the JPEG version, it is hard to imagine a sunlit scene (which it was).

 

There's a huge difference between 10 and 8 bits per channel in C5050 (and it's even greater in most cameras, typically capturing 12 bits). The difference in this instance means realistic sky colors in one picture and no color in another.

 

I kept this image because I like its composition more. I just wish I shot it in raw.

 

Source: 070924_192511.JPG

 

Done