Dripping in RAW
Dripping faucet @ home Thomas Kerk Boon Leng said - in camera technology - he is not impressed with 'megapixel size’ but rather with the depth of the image sensor, which translates to film speed or the ISO number. He said most early digitals top out at 400 and current ones at 800, but if you find one with 1600 - pay attention. I experimented with a FinePix S9500 and was surprised that Fuji's 2005 model (a hybrid rather than an SLR) tops out at 1600 with RAW capability. RAW is simply the digital equivalent to the old film negative. It is an uncompressed file format captured by the camera’s sensor and unlike JPEG, almost no processing is applied by the unit. Post-processing is done externally by one of several programs such as AdobeRGB, CameraRAW or Rawker, a Mac application. I captured the dripping faucet in my kitchen in RAW - in Manual mode with the lights on but without Flash. ISO was set to 1600. Post-processing was done by Rawker . (Click ima...