RAW or JPEG?

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[schoolsucks1234545]

I shoot RAW

[HunterMolnarFilms]

To simplify, Raw is 10 times better in terms of color information. As far as resolution goes, no difference.

[pianoadib]

" jared polin froknowsphoto . com " I SHOOT RAW ...

[Randomaited]

I always PNG becuase JPEG is compressed & PNG isn't, if a camera has the RAW option then I'd use that because I can open it in Paint.NET and the re-save it as a PNG.

Also, I use WAV for my audio files, mainly becuase it's uncompressed & I have a tone of memory space left on my PC.

[rorrt]

I was recently converted over to the RAW way of thinking, which is quite unfortionate, as i am a photographer planning on going to university in september to study pure photography.

And pretty much all my college work over the last year and a bit is all in Jpeg. Still i always duplicate files, and lightroom doesnt edit destructively.

Still. Its that old thing that people always talk about, its like destroying your negatives when you get them back from the chemists.

[martirpeperino]

SHOOT RAW MEN!!! WTF are you thinking...

[lagerbaer]

If you plan to do ANY editing with the picture at all, shoot RAW.

If you shoot JPEG, the camera does white balance AND (more important) sharpening. Also, due to limited bit depth, playing with curves/levels is somewhat limited by histogram binning effects.

[TutorialThis]

raw if you want to edit photos your self with 3rd party software such as white balence and exposure hue/sat jpeg if your lazy like me and let my camera do everything for me:)

[retepvosnul]

@bollwerkman If you want a negative, you should shoot analogue. RAW != negative.

The quality is marginally better with RAW, but the trouble of it does not make up at all.

[bollwerkman]

RAW as a former film shooter I prefer the full control and for me RAW is my negative.

[MrRob502]

Hey, I have a quesion for those of you more up on digital sensors that I am.

Would Raw capture on a non DSLR, say like a G11 Canon, or FZ35 Panasonic really be much more benifit with the smaller sensor?

Thanks.