Raw VS Jpeg RANT

Just a little rant on raw vs jpeg

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Education

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• RAW
• nikon
• canon
• nef
• d3s.5dm2
• photography
• files
• jpeg
• jared polin

[morbyss389]

do you still use that smashing pumpkins ring tone.. <3 SP

[JaredPolin]

@morbyss389 yes

[yobmas722]

can you adjust the whitebalance with raw files?

[JaredPolin]

@yobmas722 of course, you can do anything. 

[PatDog11]

I don't agree. Why not set the camera to take the perfectly exposed picture in the first place? RAW can lead to lazy photography. I'm not saying that it isn't useful in certain circumstances, though I find it's normally not needed..

[JaredPolin]

@PatDog11 it is more than just getting it right in the camera, do u set your picture control differently for each picture you take, from white balance to sharpening for each picture? I rather have all the data opposed to throwing out most of it. Just my personal preference.

[iwanttowatchitburn]

I'm going to give RAW a try again.

[hunkydoryorder]

"Most up to date Raw vs Jpeg rant" or some such.

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[MrLouisBrooks]

Basically, if you do the extra work to shoot RAW, you get the money back because of higher quality photos. If you just shoot jpeg, the photos will look average and you will get payed that way.

[BigNate84]

Good rant my friend! I'm just now getting my hands dirty with some RAW photos. I hacked my Canon SX30is with CHDK to give me RAW DNG and mirrored JPEGs of every shot. It really is amazing how much information the processor throws out when I went back and compared the DNG to the JPEG. I'm no professional and have a lot to learn, but I look forward to doing so. I need a much faster memory card now.

[TalesOfWar]

@KBeOKEH If you don't understand the basics then you'll be forever editing in post rather than actually taking good shots. If you can't shoot in RAW, then obviously the JPEG will have to do, but if you're doing it at a professional level and have the capabilities of shooting in RAW then unless there's a good reason (like taking a lot of shots in a single press of the shutter button), you'll always want the best quality result. It's also a LOT easier to edit from RAW and JPEG quality wise.

[TalesOfWar]

The only advantage I can think of shooting JPG is speed, but that's really it. You can also argue it's perfect for sending over WiFi to an iPad or laptop or whatever so it shows what you just shot on the screen, but again, that can come under speed (seeing as it's a smaller file to push over the air).

[TalesOfWar]

@lasunbird86 Look into Lightroom, with a student license you should be able to get it cheap as hell. From there you can bring it into Photoshop as a TIFF or a RAW format it supports to do the fine tuning you couldn't achieve with Lightroom. Aperture is a great option too if you're on a Mac, again, you can make your bigger changes there then export as something Photoshop is happy with. Far cheaper than buying CS5, and it's also an organiser for all those images.

[TalesOfWar]

@TITOsbGANG Try using "Open As" from the File menu.

[elchubenibre]

I am an amateur photographer and I used to shoot in both raw and jpeg (on my Canon 500D), but now days predominately shoot jpeg over raw simply because I don't like adjusting the images every time I open the file (not to mention the amount of space that raw files take up). I only shoot raw when I'm working on something for my photoshop projects. I find that when I go out to take pictures at exotic locations I always run out of room on my memory card if I set it to raw.