DirtFarmer wrote:
It wouldn't be impossible with just a raw file. The raw file contains a preview which is equivalent to a straight out of the camera jpg. There are programs that will extract the jpg with minimal time investment. The jpg is a basic quality jpg, not the best thing if you want prints, but adequate for a slide show. I assume you have to do a little editing anyway to eliminate duplicates and real duds.
However, memory is cheap, so raw+jpg is still probably the easiest way to do it.
Understood. I use a VERY old Panasonic Toughbook laptop to run the shows and it doesn't even have a raw editing program installed so there isn't any way for it recognize the raw info. I have, from time to time, looked into other ways but I do the slideshow just as a little extra for my clients ( I don't even tell them I'm going to do it, I surprise them with it, almost always a big hit!). Since I'm doing fewer and fewer weddings these days, there is no really good reason to change what has worked for so long. Always looking, though, so thank you very much for the observation, I had forgotten about the embedded preview, maybe I'll try looking into it again.