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The point about RAW is that it is, as the Adobe RAW standard suggests, a "digital negative".
A JPG is a digital print. There are a couple of downsides to RAW, but essentially all come down to needing more computing power. When I first started shooting with my Canon 20D I decided I would only shoot RAW. As it happens I am very pleased with that decision, as each generation of RAW converter now produces better images from those old RAW files of 5 years ago. I find I can revisit them and get sharper less noisy images from the digital negative if I reprocess them. All of which would have been impossible with JPG files. I never shoot anything which is "just a snapshot" all my pictures, including those of travel and family are precious to me and potentially good. I have occasionally used JPG over the years and always regretted it later when I took a really nice shot that I wanted to work on for printing. I mean really, when do you go out thinking: "I'm now going to take a bunch of rubbish pictures, so I might as well use JPG."? So my answer is ALWAYS use RAW, and use RAW + JPG if you are a journalist or professional photographer who needs to deliver results to your customers/employer FAST. |
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After all I read in this thread (thanks @ all for the great comments!) I think I'm going to shoot always in RAW+JPEG - if I'm happy with the pic as it comes out of the camera, I don't have to do PP and take the JPEG as it is. But if I want to, I have the opinion to work with the RAW-file.
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Having the JPEG there lets me quickly preview the image on my computer. My machine is quite slow at loading thumbnails for RAW files.
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