Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/10/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When you open an M8 10.3 Mbyte RAW file in photoshop you have: a 29 Mbyte image file in 8 bit rgb a 59 Mbyte image file in 16 bit rgb a 39 Mbyte image file in 8 bit cmyk a 79 Mbyte image file in 16 bit cmyk and those numbers are without any interpolation. The stock photo agencies are concerned with cmyk for high quality print applications Regards, George Lottermoser george at imagist.com http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist On Oct 19, 2009, at 11:20 PM, Frank Filippone wrote: > How do you ( and, for that matter, EVERYONE else as well) get 48MB > out of a > native 10MP camera? What buttons do you hit in PS that does this? > > I honestly do not understand....... > > I am being really polite here and not commenting on the tremendous > stupidity > of looking at EXIF data to find out if the picture was done by a > Holga or a > Leica..... as you can easily edit EXIF data to be whatever you want > it to > be..... Oh, I just realized I did comment on it......WTH..... > > Steve said...... > > so this takes the place of..."whether it's a good photo?" & > "whether it has anything to say?" > > Well, no comment on the obvious fact that you must play by the > Stock agency > rules or you just do not make a living....it is reality. > > Frank Filippone > red735i at earthlink.net > > 48 MB files are the minimum for most. More and more are using > lists of > acceptable and unacceptable cameras. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information