Camera Owners of the Bay Area

The June 2004 meeting of the Camera Owners of the Bay Area (COBA) user group will be held on Wednesday, June 9, 2004 at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 7:30-10:30 pm.

RAW Converters

More and more people today are discovering the benefits of shooting RAW. We will take a look at the features, workflow, and output from several RAW conversion software packages, including Adobe Camera RAW, Canon EOS Viewer Utility, Digital Photo Professional, and Capture One Professional. We will examine the pros and cons of each package and determine whether it’s good practice to use just one RAW convertor or several a RAW workflow.

If you use BreezeBrowser or Nikon Capture and would like to speak about its feature set, please let me know!

Using Color Charts

Michael T. Jones will discuss his use of color charts in the field and how they help him during color-correction. He will demonstrate consumer software used for this task (inCamera Professional) along with his own custom software for color balancing.

Michael is an amateur photographer who loves travel, reading, writing, and
arithmetic. Professionally, he is an entrepreneurial executive, serves on
several company boards, holds ten US patents, and was formerly responsible
for advanced graphics software at Silicon Graphics. A few of his photos are
at http://www.primacy.org/members/mtj/