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RAW vs Jpeg
- Thread starter Homer72
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Re: Using Raw more and more. So RAW + JPEG or RAW only?
A JPEG is the final result of recording and editing a raw file. It's also what you post on the innernets forum.
I shoot raw 99.9999% of the time. The only time I shoot JPEG is either with my smart phone or if I know there will be no editing of the image and it's just used to upload right to the internet.
I have no idea what jpeg is any more.
A JPEG is the final result of recording and editing a raw file. It's also what you post on the innernets forum.
I shoot raw 99.9999% of the time. The only time I shoot JPEG is either with my smart phone or if I know there will be no editing of the image and it's just used to upload right to the internet.
Re: Using Raw more and more. So RAW + JPEG or RAW only?
Thank You!
A JPEG is the final result of recording and editing a raw file. It's also what you post on the innernets forum.
I shoot raw 99.9999% of the time. The only time I shoot JPEG is either with my smart phone or if I know there will be no editing of the image and it's just used to upload right to the internet.
Thank You!
Re: Using Raw more and more. So RAW + JPEG or RAW only?
Since you are using Nikon's own software, your raw files will have your camera jpg picture control settings applied right from the start, so you can generate jpg as good as the camera produces without any processing.
I would only shoot raw + jpg if you need jpg's quickly. Like if you are away from home and need some prints made. Sometimes I will shoot raw + jpg if I know my wife will be itchy to quickly email or facebook some photos as soon as we walk in the door. I can just hand her card #2 and be done with it. When I first started shooting raw, I did shoot raw +jpg, but I felt it was becoming clutter on my computer uploading both to the same folder. I quickly learned I could easily produce jpg as good as the camera with no extra thought, so going forward it is raw only with the above exceptions.After seeing what I can do with the Nikon ViewNX2 to make photos look so much better (and save some photos), I'm finding myself going with RAW more and more. So for those of you who shoot RAW, would there be any advantages to sticking with the RAW + JPEG that I've been using or should I just go with RAW only? I primarily use Aperture priority followed by Shutter priority. Thanks.
Since you are using Nikon's own software, your raw files will have your camera jpg picture control settings applied right from the start, so you can generate jpg as good as the camera produces without any processing.
Fortkentdad
Senior Member
add me to the list who have gone RAW only
For a long time I was a both-and kinda guy.
But now my 'workflow' (or so I'm told it is called) processing typically is to pull the SD card, pop it into my USB 3 reader, open Aftershot, review images, touch them up if needed, crop, straighten (and I've just started tagging them). Then save the select few to my hard drive system. Image management is something you have to do. You can do it well, or do it poorly, but if you shoot much at all, you will do it. So the JPG-RAW story takes you to how to I sort, store and manage my photo-collection.
Just ran a file count on my photo directory. 148,000+ files - to be fair many images are stored both as RAW and JPG and then there are sometimes XML thumbnail files. So no, not 148,000 images, probably half that in total images. 20% from my pre-DSLR days perhaps and a few hundred scans of old photo's and slides. But it is nothing to add a couple of hundred keepers after a weekend visiting the grand-baby or a auto show, or a productive nature walk.
And I'm just an enthusiast.
For a long time I was a both-and kinda guy.
But now my 'workflow' (or so I'm told it is called) processing typically is to pull the SD card, pop it into my USB 3 reader, open Aftershot, review images, touch them up if needed, crop, straighten (and I've just started tagging them). Then save the select few to my hard drive system. Image management is something you have to do. You can do it well, or do it poorly, but if you shoot much at all, you will do it. So the JPG-RAW story takes you to how to I sort, store and manage my photo-collection.
Just ran a file count on my photo directory. 148,000+ files - to be fair many images are stored both as RAW and JPG and then there are sometimes XML thumbnail files. So no, not 148,000 images, probably half that in total images. 20% from my pre-DSLR days perhaps and a few hundred scans of old photo's and slides. But it is nothing to add a couple of hundred keepers after a weekend visiting the grand-baby or a auto show, or a productive nature walk.
And I'm just an enthusiast.