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<blockquote data-quote="Geoffc" data-source="post: 253774" data-attributes="member: 8705">I shoot raw 100% of the time (Have done since my D70) on my D800 and process in Lightroom, Photoshop and Nik. I'm happy with this approach as it works well, especially as the modern software and PCs handle raw almost as easily as jpg. However, my wife and I also have a couple of D7100s between us and I was thinking that if I wanted to shoot longer bursts I would need to use jpg due to the buffer limits. A big problem of jpg over raw is that it comes off the camera pre-processed. If it's over sharpened, too much contrast etc you largely have to live with it. So if I did use jpg and set the picture control to not sharpen/minimal sharpen or not add contrast etc would I have something better to work with in Lightroom? I know it won't be a raw as the level of information is much less, but is it better than a heavily pre-processed file?I suspect this is going to be a question I'll wish I hadn't asked as it will make me look stupid and I will probably do a couple of tests for myself this weekend, however I just wondered if anybody else had considered this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Geoffc, post: 253774, member: 8705"] I shoot raw 100% of the time (Have done since my D70) on my D800 and process in Lightroom, Photoshop and Nik. I'm happy with this approach as it works well, especially as the modern software and PCs handle raw almost as easily as jpg. However, my wife and I also have a couple of D7100s between us and I was thinking that if I wanted to shoot longer bursts I would need to use jpg due to the buffer limits. A big problem of jpg over raw is that it comes off the camera pre-processed. If it's over sharpened, too much contrast etc you largely have to live with it. So if I did use jpg and set the picture control to not sharpen/minimal sharpen or not add contrast etc would I have something better to work with in Lightroom? I know it won't be a raw as the level of information is much less, but is it better than a heavily pre-processed file? I suspect this is going to be a question I'll wish I hadn't asked as it will make me look stupid and I will probably do a couple of tests for myself this weekend, however I just wondered if anybody else had considered this. [/QUOTE]

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