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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 187468" data-attributes="member: 6277">If you read some of the old posts you will see I only shot JPEG for a long time. I shot some night shots a while back and decided I would shoot RAW that evening. When I went to edit the files the JPEG-Fine was absolutely unusable due to the color of the street lights in the area. I could not correct the orange/yellow out of the shot to save my life. A couple of days later I decided to take a second look at the night time pictures. This time I pulled up the RAW and slid the slider for color temp over to the left and the color went to as near perfect as it could get. I went through the entire group and adjusted the color, sharpness, contrast shadow detail and a couple of other items and they were the best night time pictures I had ever seen. Well at least the best I had ever shot. I started shooting RAW+JPEG-Fine for a while then and played with the RAW files on a few and found that basic post processing of the files only took a couple of minutes and the results were a leap ahead for me. My wife shoots a Nikon CoolPix L120 and it only shoots JPEG. I had taught her to use ViewNX2 for her editing and she was doing very good with it. Recently I decided to show her how to use Adobe Camera RAW editor on her JPEG files. Her results jumped when she did. She will shoot several hundred photos when we go out and in a few hours she will cull her photos to 30 or so photos that she like and will edit them in ACR and then PhotoShop and will have some photos that rival some of the more expensive cameras on the forum here. All this being said, give RAW a try by shooting RAW+JPEG so you can fall back on the JPEG at any time. Once you get the basics of RAW down it is a pretty easy task and the results will better than JPEG.</blockquote>

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