Adrian Footman wrote: I was looking for an article I read last week that was very interesting and I wanted to run it by this community to get thoughts. It spoke about JPEG technology on the rise and that this could make shooting in RAW obsolete in the near future. It was very interesting and I hope to get more information about this. Imagine getting the same quality in a much smaller JPEG file? I know my hard drives and camera buffer will sure love to hear this.
What do you think? Plausible?
garyrhook wrote:
Adrian Footman wrote: I was looking for an article I read last week that was very interesting and I wanted to run it by this community to get thoughts. It spoke about JPEG technology on the rise and that this could make shooting in RAW obsolete in the near future. It was very interesting and I hope to get more information about this. Imagine getting the same quality in a much smaller JPEG file? I know my hard drives and camera buffer will sure love to hear this.
What do you think? Plausible?
No.
A) There's already a "better" JPG that no one uses. So much for that.
2) JPG is lossy. As in, data is lost. How can that ever hope to replace RAW? Be definition you can not get the same quality. They're selling snake oil.
C) Technology marches onward. Memory and storage become less expensive, processing becomes faster, and the whole points of "saving space" becomes less and less relevant.
Yes I saw the article go by (FStoppers, maybe?) and read it. I was not impressed.
photographyelement wrote: It's not really a question of "better". It depends on who it's better for. JPEG format is better for a lot of people. It's simpler and quicker and doesn't require any post processing.
If you're more particular about your images and you want to take the time to creatively style your images then RAW will always be better. With JPEG, you get what you get and while you can make some minor adjustments, the creative post editing options are much more limited.
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