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<blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 96758" data-attributes="member: 9521">No, not really. What I'm saying is that when you shoot a RAW image you're being handed a great deal of information that will allow you to make minor adjustments in both color and tone so that the final image will have the exact qualities you are looking for. That's not to say you can't do the exact same thing to a JPEG file, rather there is a great deal more information in a RAW file compared to a JPEG file that allows you to make more substantive changes in the look and feel of your image than you can with a JPEG image.So try this, take this very same RAW image and play with it in a program that allows you to make changes in a RAW file, like ViewNX or Lightroom and see at the end of the day whether you like your altered image better than the predefined, in-camera JPEG image. If not, then perhaps you do not need to shoot RAW, if so, then maybe you should stop shooting JPEG and only shoot RAW.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dave_W, post: 96758, member: 9521"] No, not really. What I'm saying is that when you shoot a RAW image you're being handed a great deal of information that will allow you to make minor adjustments in both color and tone so that the final image will have the exact qualities you are looking for. That's not to say you can't do the exact same thing to a JPEG file, rather there is a great deal more information in a RAW file compared to a JPEG file that allows you to make more substantive changes in the look and feel of your image than you can with a JPEG image. So try this, take this very same RAW image and play with it in a program that allows you to make changes in a RAW file, like ViewNX or Lightroom and see at the end of the day whether you like your altered image better than the predefined, in-camera JPEG image. If not, then perhaps you do not need to shoot RAW, if so, then maybe you should stop shooting JPEG and only shoot RAW. [/QUOTE]

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