10D parameters

[phyrpowr]

Have read some pros/cons on setting parameters in camera, vs. using

Photoshop alone for sharpening, contrast,etc.

 

Question is: if I set higher parameters in my 10D, will I have a

better capture to start with in Photoshop Elements 2.0, or am I

actually losing raw material to work with?

 

Does the above apply (if at all) equally to RAW and JPEG?

 

Jack

[bobatkins]

Camera parameters have no effect on RAW files. They are RAW, unprocessed data.

 

As to whether it matters whether you tweak JPEGs in-camera or in PS it depends entirely on how well the in camera functions are done. Since the in-camera functions work on the 12-bit RAW data they ought to do a better job then using PS on the 8-bit JPEG files which themselves were derived from the RAW data.

 

In practice, I don't think it matters much since the total range of in-camera adjustments is pretty small and result in fairly subtle changes in the image.

[luke_pederson]

If you are shooting in RAW it does not matter what your peramaters are, because you can just change them afterward in Canon's software that comes with the camera (can't remember the name). If you you are shooting in .jpg then what you shot is what you got. I can not wait until you can change your shutter speed, f-stop, and flash power post shooting, but then I guess where is the skill.