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I've been meaning to write an article to explain how JPG works for almost 20 years, but since unless you have a PhD I'll have to explain all the basics like discrete cosine transforms and quantization matrices from scratch, and that's a lot of work to explain in simple English - sort of like giving y'all a PhD education in one article - but this mathematical magic is how JPGs retain all the picture information that matters in a lot less space. Few folks without PhDs in mathematics and digital image processing realize that JPGs are gamma-corrected and can have as much dynamic range as you need, while raw files may have more bits but instead use simple linear quantization and don't necessarily have any more dynamic range - ha! Yes, I only shoot JPG. Yes, all I needed was my one lowest-quality JPG and Aurora HDR recovered what was there from it. I wanted to see the blinding disc of the sun in the clouds as well as details in the dark sea below. I used Luminar Aurora HDR (now part of Luminar Neo) with my one JPG file to restore detail to the harsh highlights and deep shadows. If this was a portfolio shot I'd go back and lighten the dark cloud in the middle, but tough, it's a free website. Canon EOS R10, OWC ATLAS S PRO 256GB SDXC card, RF-s 18-45mm IS STM at 38mm (62mm equivalent) at f/8 at 1/ 3,200 at Auto ISO 100 ( LV 17.6). Solar Disc and Gull at Sunset, 6:44 PM, Thursday, 18 August 2022. No tripods, FINE JPGs or RAW CR3 files were used or needed: These are all shot hand-held as NORMAL (stairstep icon) JPGs. Here's my updated, detailed comparison betweo the EOS R7 and EOS R10.

Luminar neo worth it full#

Next stop: full reviews of the two new RF-s lenses.

Luminar neo worth it how to#

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