From the course: Advanced Photography: Medium-Format Digital Cameras

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Workflow and tethering

Workflow and tethering

From the course: Advanced Photography: Medium-Format Digital Cameras

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Workflow and tethering

- On our normal SLR or mirrorless camera, you copy images in JPEG or raw format to your computer, and then use any of a number of different applications or combinations of applications to perform your edits, size your images, and create your desired output. That simple workflow has not always been the case with medium format, large/medium format cameras have often required proprietary software and intermediate file formats to get images from the camera into a finished file that is compatible with any normal image editing software. Fortunately, all of these cameras fall under normal modern standards, they all produce raw files, the Fuji can even generate JPEGs or TIP files from raws in-camera. The Pentax, meanwhile, writes directly to DMG files. As of this writing, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom are both able to read raw files from any of these cameras, so you should have no trouble adapting any of these to your current workload. However, if you're a studio shooter who likes to shoot…

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