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Re:Ask HN: Tips getting RAWs from wedding photographers? by donniefitz2 on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @05:26PM (#5870861)
As a part time photographer myself, I find it very strange that your photographer will only give you 2.5mp files. That is not standard practice. Typically, you would get full-rez, processed .jpeg files.

I would never give a client the RAW files, neither do most photographers. RAW is incomplete and they require processing, which is part of the service offered. It's like asking a film photographer to provide the negatives.

But you should expect to get the full-rez processed .jpeg files with personal use rights.

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Re:Ask HN: Tips getting RAWs from wedding photographers? by seremoney on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @06:48PM (#5871215)
Rather than the negatives, I think it's closer to asking the photographer for just the film--before any development is done. With a negative, you've already done some processing with regards to the timing of the film development (push/pull) that you can arguably accomplish in Lightroom/Aperture/etc. when processing the RAW file.
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