Settings for JPEG

Hi Guys,

Im borrowing a Pentax DSLR and it was setup in RAW format...How can I change it to take shots in JPEG?

Thanks,
David

You mean you have time for photography with all this furore going on?

Whatever next? Normality? Surely not...

Which camera, though, squire?

If it's a K10D, or K100D, then Menu | Rec mode | File format | JPEG

Hope this helps... now get back to work

What! You want to use JPG mode!!


PDF manuals are available online straight from the Pentax website
If it's an *ist-D then the left dial has a dedicated position to set the image format. Other than that - it'll be in the Menu.
Matt

In the Record menu you can set the number of recorded pixels and the JPEG quality level (how much the file is compressed by the camera). I would suggest you set the highest value and best quality in both.

From time to time I run a test on whether RAW or JPEG files offer the best quality and I've just repeated that with the K10D. Looking at the A3 prints, it's a moot point which is best, but so far slightly more viewers have chosen the JPEG version as the sharpest and most detailed. Whichever is best, it is now very, very close indeed.

Have fun with the camera!

Ill have to give it a go..not sure what model it is yet as I haven't had a good look at it. I just know i took some pictures and had to use RAW conversion tools to send them to the printers. Just for family photos at the moment.

thanks for the help!

Could well be true. But.....you don't get a get out of jail card. That is only provided with the raw option. On second thought........... David already is doing "jail time" at the moment Must feel like a real punishment trying to cope with all the comments, the last 24 hours.
Keep on the good work, David. You might get paroled soon.
Martin.

It's interesting that the difference between RAW and JPEG is so much reduced to almost zero in the K10D. I wonder how the K20D will compare.

I don't think this is the whole story. If you take a perfectly exposed picture, and record it as a JPEG, there is not going to be much difference between that and RAW.

RAW comes into its own in those situations where you don't have a perfectly exposed picture. Then, RAW allows you to get beack to what the picture should have been, whilst JPEG may not let you.

G

I accept that. It's just interesting to note that the quality gap has become effectively insignificant whereas at 6MP a differnce could be clearly seen.

It depends on so many facots such as the camera, the photographer, the subject, the lighting, the processing that the test I did is really only meaningful to me. Every photographer should try things out for themselves.

I just like to challenge the accepted received wisdom and find out for myself.