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<blockquote data-quote="Felisek" data-source="post: 354648" data-attributes="member: 23887">It seems to me that everyone is forgetting one thing. There is no such thing as &quot;shooting JPEG&quot;. You always shoot RAW. Always!RAW file is simply data collected from the camera sensor and saved into a file. When you &quot;shoot JPEG&quot;, your camera collects RAW data from the sensor, does post-processing, converts these data into JPEG image and sends it to the card. The RAW data are discarded after this. But they are always there in the first place.Please note that I intentionally used the word &quot;post-processing&quot; above. This is what camera software actually does. It applies a profile (e.g. standard or landscape) that contains several arbitrary parameters (as contrast, saturation, sharpening, etc.) in order to create an image. You cannot avoid post-processing, even if the camera is doing it for you.So, this discussion is a bit misguided (in my opinion). We all shoot RAW. The only difference is that some of us rely on in-camera post-processing and discard RAW data, while others (myself including) keep RAW data and prefer controlled post-processing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Felisek, post: 354648, member: 23887"] It seems to me that everyone is forgetting one thing. There is no such thing as "shooting JPEG". You always shoot RAW. Always! RAW file is simply data collected from the camera sensor and saved into a file. When you "shoot JPEG", your camera collects RAW data from the sensor, does post-processing, converts these data into JPEG image and sends it to the card. The RAW data are [I]discarded[/I] after this. But they are always there in the first place. Please note that I intentionally used the word "post-processing" above. This is what camera software actually does. It applies a profile (e.g. standard or landscape) that contains several arbitrary parameters (as contrast, saturation, sharpening, etc.) in order to create an image. You cannot avoid post-processing, even if the camera is doing it for you. So, this discussion is a bit misguided (in my opinion). We all shoot RAW. The only difference is that some of us rely on in-camera post-processing and discard RAW data, while others (myself including) keep RAW data and prefer controlled post-processing. [/QUOTE]

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