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Originally Posted by Steep
Since I bought my Rebel, I have not used anything but RAW, can't understand why anyone would want to use jpg if RAW is available.
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I've been through this argument a few times.
Firstly I will not dispute that RAW gives you the best control and increases your options. I do use RAW - I just do not use it as a matter or course.
My first holiday with the 20D I took along a laptop so the volume of data to be stored was not an issue. I had the camera on RAW + small jpg ..so it saved both to the card. I have tuned the camera settings to produce jpgs' with the look I desire.
I spent an awful long time on my return going through the RAWs adjusting things...copying settings to similar shots etc. and finally processing the images. I ended up with what looked to be a quite presentable collection of jpgs for printing.
Out of curiosity I did a side by side comparison between my hard work jpgs and the small jpgs from the camera. There was maybe 3% that were better from RAW where exposure adjustment had made the difference, the rest were virtually identical.
It was obvious the subjects in question were difficult exposures and I would choose RAW if I tried something similar again.
I don't like photo editing. Working with the RAWs is not something I enjoy. For me there is little gain and a lot of hassle in always shooting RAW. For that reason I shoot best jpg and switch to RAW if I suspect a difficult subject to expose correctly.
My Autumn (though it looks more haloween) shot was the moon OOF through not too leafy tree branches. That was from RAW.
For someone that enjoys the editing process exclusive RAW is the way to go. It just does not work for me.