I shoot a lot of portraits and product, mainly on a tripod. I have a Pro Media Gear L bracket. It had the Arca Swiss dovetail on both sides. It fits my camera like a glove, and still allows access to the battery and all the ports. Quick switch of shooting modes. Is a good L bracket expensive yes. But then you get what you pay for in photography.

Richards photo lab in CA as well.

https://www.richardphotolab.com/

I have a Canon pro 100. I have had very good luck it. I call canon when one on the colors would not print. The printer was 2 years out of warranty. They sent me out a NEW print head at no charge. I had great customer service.

I as well do not understand the undercurrent of disrespect of his craft. When i saw is large prints on display I was in total awe! The fine detail, expressions, and quality of the large prints were "OMG"

In the late 1970ies his work was on display at the Science and Industry Museum in Chicago. I spent couple of hours studying his work. He truly a master at this art.

My first "Real Camera" was this twin lens reflex given to my Uncle in 1968. He purchased it used in 1962. I still shoot B&W film on occasion.

Using a Canon Pro-100 for a number of years now. The prints are bright and brilliant. Like any printer to get the best results you must use printer profiles when printing. As far as the high cost of ink I have learned to refill my cartridges'. I have been buying ink from Precision Colors. https://www.precisioncolors.com/
They have all the instructions and tools needed on their website.

It drops the price from $15. a cartridge to less that $2.00 each. The ink matched the oe canon ink. I use their printer profiles through photoshop or lightroom. The prints are amazing.

I took the digital plunge 13 years ago with a Canon 20d. In the last couple of years I shot a few rolls of Tri-X 120 and had it developed and scanned. I still love a well done full tonal range B&W print from film. That said I kept an old Minolta twin lens 120 camera. I sold my Canon F1 system with prime with multiple prime lens at a KEH & Helix camera event. Got a lot more for the system than I expected. Going to buy a Sigma 85MM 1.4 lens for my 5DMKIV.

LMAO ,been there too many times!

Bill, Are you trying to speed up the programs loading? Or is the concern the time it it takes in Lightroom moving from one image to the next one. The few seconds it take for the image to load/sharpen?

I use 3 party ink from precision ink.https://www.precisioncolors.com/PC42cref.html. They provide profiles for red river paper using their ink. If you follow all his directions on the web site you will be very happy.

Since you mentioned using the Canon Pro 100 printer, are you trying to get your prints to match the monitor as well? Calibrating your monitor will give you colors and density.

If are looking for your printer to print to match your monitor that will require the use of ICC printer profiles.
I use the color munki unit from X-rite. It will profile your monitor and your printer match. I use a Canon Pro 100. If i can be of any help you are welcome to message me.

I can recommend from very good experience this company for your Pro 100.

https://www.precisioncolors.com/PC42.html

I have been refilling my canon cartridges with their ink for a few years now. They sell everything you need to refill your ink. Instructions on their web site as well. Their ink does match the canon ink. They also have printer profiles you can download. I can tell you I have calibrate my monitor and when I use their ink and printer profiles the prints match my screen. By refilling my cost is less than $2. per cartridge.

I have tried the ciss in systems from another company with my Epson 1430 printer. They worked for a while the nothing but problems.

If you have any questions you can send me a personal message on this site. Happy to help

I have 4 yo pro 100. It's the best printer I have ever owned. A few months ago one color stopped working. Test pattern showed no ink from one nozzel. I called Cannon. They said it sounds like a bad circuit in the print head. They sent me a replacement at no charge. Best customer service ever!

[quote=Sark17]Hello! I am new to shooting RAW and am getting more confused by the day. I have a professional photographer friend who tells me I HAVE to shoot in raw on an upcoming trip to Africa (I leave Friday!) So I started shooting raw to practice using my dogs. I figured it would be fairly straight forward - I was very wrong. I use a Canon EOS R with various lenses.

In the first screen shot you can see the JPG (right) compared to the RAW photo (left). The Raw photo is super grainy. The JPG is fine. I didn't edit any of these or even try for any good composition, just wanted to practice working with RAW and getting them off of my card - which has also proven to be complicated.

So, my questions - 1) why are my RAW photos much more grainy than JPG? I realize ISO is a bit high in this specific photo, but even when it's not at all, I get the same result. 2) what is the most straightforward way to get to get a raw file off of an SD card and actually be able to do anything with it on a Mac? Lastly, I am probably just going to shoot Large JPG to save myself the panic of ruining something trying to use RAW if I can't figure this out...

I am currently using a DNG converter to get them to Lightroom, then I am not totally sure what to do with them after that, I couldn't even figure out how to save it to post it here as an example as I did with the JPEG.

I did not read through allthe responses, so I may repeating

I use adobe DNG converter. It is a free download. Which ever one you make sure you are setting to convert at the full file size. Perhaps you are coverting to a small size DNG and losing quality?

In lightroom Develope module set the profile to camera standard. This is a good startingpoint to match the Jpg.

If you have questions you can pm me

Jeff