K10D v Lightroom exposure and histograms

[Godfrey DiGiorgi]

BTW:

I use the Lightroom preference to treat JPEG files with the same name  
as a RAW file, on import, as a duplicate sidecar. That way I only get  
RAW files imported, or JPEG files if no RAW file exists.

Godfrey

On Apr 30, 2008, at 8:07 PM, Stan Halpin wrote:

> To amplify just a bit on Godder's reply...
>
> If you shoot a few frames as RAW+JPEG and then import them into LR,
> it is easy to see at a glance which are the JPEG (lighter) and which
> are the RAW (darker). I was reminded of this last night while
> scrolling through way too many thumbnails to try and find a shot of
> my mother-in-law that my wife needed ASAP... (Don't anybody mention
> Keywords to me. I know all about them and sometimes even use them.
> Just not on shots that I have any reason to look for later.) I came
> across a bunch of duplicate shots, with one version lighter than the
> other. It took my work- and wine-befuddled mind a while before I
> realized that they were from the brief era when I was doing the RAW
> +JPEG thing. (Don't ask why, I haven't a clue. It must have seemed
> like a good idea at the time.) The camera does its magic processing
> of RAW to JPEG, saves the result and/or puts a small version of it on
> the LCD for you to view. And uses that JPEG version as the basis for
> its scene analysis which yields the histogram. You need to do that
> processing yourself with the RAW output. Which I usually find usually
> involves adding some exposure or fill-lighting. This was true with
> the *ist-D as well as the K10D.
>