2-ton wrote:
I am not even sure what raw is. Right now I have the settings to automatic everything, so it's like a fancy point and shoot. I will try to learn how to do some of the other settings from tutorials. I still have to learn how to download the pics into my computer, which brings another problem up...storage. My disk doesn't have a whole lot of room left. Seems like I might need an external drive, then tripod, then lenses, oh, my. Can of worms!!!!!
With your photos, you don't have to download your photos to your computer. You can put them straight from your camera onto the net (photo sharing places usually keep your photos in the correct/original resolution. [You can join many for free]) Then just download them on to your computer as you need. If you will be taking lots of photos an external drive may be the way to go then if you want to keep them on you at all times.
A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner.[1][2] Raw files are named so because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor. Normally, the image is processed by a raw converter in a wide-gamut internal colorspace where precise adjustments can be made before conversion to a "positive" file format such as TIFF or JPEG for storage, printing, or further manipulation, which often encodes the image in a device-dependent colorspace. There are dozens, if not hundreds, of raw formats in use by different models of digital equipment (like cameras or film scanners).[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format
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