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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brusader" data-source="post: 111509" data-attributes="member: 12347">I shoot in RAW because I like to be able to play around with my photos on my computer.  Shooting in RAW gives me a lot more options.When I was given my D80, I played around with it, but mostly stayed on the safe settings of 'Auto' and 'Program' and shot in JPG.  This was because I didn't understand the manual settings.  And this RAW mode was saving 10MB size images when I could use JPG and have them only be around 4.5MB.Then one day I found a photo editor that could read RAW files and was stunned at what more I could do to correct and adjust my photos.When you edit a JPG file, you're loading a compressed image and information and detail is already lost.  When editing a RAW file, you have as much information as the sensor can give you and it's the program you're using to edit that will would probably limit you.I think of RAW files as a 'digital negative'; you use a negative to create a photograph and you can do a lot of adjustments without losing quality.JPG files are like the instant photographs you get from a polaroid camera.  Once you've clicked the shutter button you've got what's there.On the issue of storage, drive space is not an issue for me. Storage is cheap and getting cheaper.  I have four spare 1 terrabyte drives sitting in my desk drawer I'll be putting into a server I'm building.All my digital photos I've taken since 2002 add up to 58GB, and I can back them up on 13 DVDs which cost around $0.30 each.  I burn two copies of each disk and store the second copy at my parent's place. I live in an old house with old electric wiring. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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