Why I (Mostly) Shoot JPEG by Joe Farace (via Photofocus)

A very well written article about the JPEG vs RAW debate. I find that I tend to switch back and forth depending on what I plan on doing with the image.

 EDITOR’S NOTE: My pal Joe Farace writes his counterpoint here to my post Here’s Why I Shoot RAW Post & Photo by Joe Farace – Follow Joe on Twitter One of digital photography’s seven deadly sins is shooting in JPEG format, when everybody know that if you’re a serious photographer ya ‘gotta shoot RAW. So now its time for me to raise my hand and admit, “My name is Joe and I’m a JPEG shooter.” It’s not that I never shoot in RAW format, sometimes … Read More

via Photofocus

Here’s Why I Shoot RAW (via Photofocus)

The reasons in this article are why I run CHDK on my Canon A720IS and shoot in Raw mode with my Pentax K-5. I actually store them as DNG files with my K-5,  I feel it is a good idea to go with a published standard instead of a proprietary format. The more data that you can get into the computer, the more control of the resulting image you have.

People seem to still struggle with this. Should you shoot JPEG or RAW? I can’t answer that for you. But I can answer it for me. Here are just some of the reasons I shoot RAW. When you shoot in RAW, you bring back a digital file that has more information than if you shoot in JPG. More is better in this case. You can … Read More

via Photofocus