Hi Phil, With shooting RAW, and the camera you have, I would expect the RAW to work as the bracketed images you shoot as long as you process (or pre-process before PP) in a RAW editor. You should arrive at a more dynamic end result (at least with practice). I think RAW Therapee is free if you don't have AfterShot Pro. Yes, most all printing is done using 8-bit processing. What those 8-bits of color are made of when transformed can matter. My usualy work are books, manuals, catalogs and collateral materials, high-end material from drug companies, that sort of thing. I am often involved in XML processing for the source as regards incoming data. The images come to me are often as shot in RAW, the ones that are usable right off are the TIFF exports after someone else has manipulated the images. For the "other" images, the lower their annual revenue, the lower the quality of the images that come in. It's the nature of the beast. Some of the worse I work with are from authors themselves. I am doing a large book now on flowers that is a few steps up from self-publishing (which means an imprint the main publisher uses for titles they don't expect to sell well). As such, there is no budget for the author to have a professional take pictures and from what he is likely to really get from the book (on peonies mainly) he isn't going to have them reshot from his pictures. Then again, some of the images are historical in nature. It's kinda hard to reshoot something from the 1800s... So the images look good at best. But hell, some of his pictures are not of the quality of ones from the early 1900s that are in the book. So there is a lot of manipulation for sharpness/clarity. The hardest part is to arrive at some sort of color consistency from the poor to good shots. Mike
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