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<blockquote data-quote="PhotoEnth47" data-source="post: 123371" data-attributes="member: 13095"><p>I just had a perfect example of the advantage of shooting RAW (or both RAW &amp; JPeg). I took some pictures the other day at a location which I will not be able to visit again for some years, (as I am in the process of moving to another country), and got some nice shots. When I got home, I loaded them on my computer, and opened the first JPeg to check them out, and wham! I had forgotten to set the white balance from tungsten back to daylight from a shoot the night before. They were all blue. Now I could go through and change them all on the computer, but as we all know, changing the colour from a tungsten setting to daylight with a JPeg is going to produce all sorts of posterization. Luckily, I had the RAW versions, and so there was no problem with changing the white balance, as the RAW file doesn't actually record this in the file in the same way as a JPeg. So RAW does give you non-destructive post processing, which you cannot have with JPegs. And of course, who among us has not done something dumb like having the wrong white balance set?</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="PhotoEnth47, post: 123371, member: 13095"] I just had a perfect example of the advantage of shooting RAW (or both RAW & JPeg). I took some pictures the other day at a location which I will not be able to visit again for some years, (as I am in the process of moving to another country), and got some nice shots. When I got home, I loaded them on my computer, and opened the first JPeg to check them out, and wham! I had forgotten to set the white balance from tungsten back to daylight from a shoot the night before. They were all blue. Now I could go through and change them all on the computer, but as we all know, changing the colour from a tungsten setting to daylight with a JPeg is going to produce all sorts of posterization. Luckily, I had the RAW versions, and so there was no problem with changing the white balance, as the RAW file doesn't actually record this in the file in the same way as a JPeg. So RAW does give you non-destructive post processing, which you cannot have with JPegs. And of course, who among us has not done something dumb like having the wrong white balance set? [/QUOTE]

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