Hassner wrote: Once you have the hang of processing RAW in eg. Photoshop or Lightroom, you will never shoot jpg again, unless you are in a huge hurry and need the shots fast.
Randall McNabb wrote: Good morning. I'm new here. I tried finding an exact answer and did find anything and was wondering for those who have been shooting in JPEG format and want to change to shooting in RAW. What are the downsides to RAW?
From what I'm seeing, it's just a little performance because the RAW files are larger? So it will use up more of the cameras buffer as it processes. Is that correct?
Hassner wrote: Once you have the hang of processing RAW in eg. Photoshop or Lightroom, you will never shoot jpg again, unless you are in a huge hurry and need the shots fast.
effron wrote:
Hassner wrote: Once you have the hang of processing RAW in eg. Photoshop or Lightroom, you will never shoot jpg again, unless you are in a huge hurry and need the shots fast.
Bingo. There are no downsides to raw format. Photoshop comes with ACR, and learning post processing is as important as learning the camera controls. The file sizes are bigger but digital storage is cheap, and getting "more affordable" by the day....
Joves wrote: Why not just shoot in dual format? I shoot in RAW+Jpeg Fine all the time. The camera clears the buffer just fine when doing so. To me it is having the best of both worlds. I tweak the settings in my Picture Controls to pre-process my Jpegs for effect, and sometimes play with my RAW files to see what I can get out of them differently. I have learned what my camera does with the PC settings, and usually only do minor tweaks at times, in photoshop. For processing your RAWs you can use Nikon Transfer as well, though it is really only good for minor work, to get the most out there are other programs for that.
Baydream wrote:
Joves wrote: Why not just shoot in dual format? I shoot in RAW+Jpeg Fine all the time. The camera clears the buffer just fine when doing so. To me it is having the best of both worlds. I tweak the settings in my Picture Controls to pre-process my Jpegs for effect, and sometimes play with my RAW files to see what I can get out of them differently. I have learned what my camera does with the PC settings, and usually only do minor tweaks at times, in photoshop. For processing your RAWs you can use Nikon Transfer as well, though it is really only good for minor work, to get the most out there are other programs for that.
I often use the jpegs to pre-select photo for further processing, then work on the RAW files.
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