Any reason NOT to shoot in RAW?

8 years 5 months ago #462123 by Trisha.M
Seems like everyone is shooting in RAW these days.  Is anyone not shooting RAW these days?  I have found some people saying that for some reason shooting in RAW increases transfer time (which I knew about) and also created extra wear and tear on memory cards. (didn't know about this one).  

I knew about burst rates being slower too.  Really though, are there any other reasons why you wouldn't shoot in RAW?  

 


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8 years 5 months ago #462213 by Allen D
Your taking family images as a favor and will want to upload them immediately for family to access with out needing any special editors.  


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8 years 5 months ago #462217 by Hassner
Wear and tear on cards? I've got cards 5 years old, still going strong.

I shoot reference shots all day long and it needs to be mailed asap at the end of the day.
I shoot on the smallest size in jpg and still reduce down to 900 pixels in length to be able to send bulk images by mail.


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8 years 5 months ago #462236 by effron
Card wear and tear?...:P   Honestly who dreams this stuff up. A "benefit" of not shooting raw is processing time and effort. If you're happy with what the camera gives you, shoot jpeg.

Why so serious?
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8 years 5 months ago #462242 by Screamin Scott
Most, if not all, sports shooters, many wedding shooters  & lots of photojournalists who shoot for papers shoot in JPEG as they are on time constraints to deliver images ASAP. Fine Art, Landscape, Portrait (some), Macro & most Commercial photographers will shoot Raw as they are not normally on times constraints & want to edit the image to what they see in their minds eye (seeing as the camera doesn't see the same as a human eye/brain)

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8 years 5 months ago #462396 by Overread
I have to agree, I've never heard about wear and tear on a memory card.  


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8 years 5 months ago #462402 by hghlndr6

Screamin Scott wrote: Most, if not all, sports shooters, many wedding shooters  & lots of photojournalists who shoot for papers shoot in JPEG as they are on time constraints to deliver images ASAP. Fine Art, Landscape, Portrait (some), Macro & most Commercial photographers will shoot Raw as they are not normally on times constraints & want to edit the image to what they see in their minds eye (seeing as the camera doesn't see the same as a human eye/brain)


Summed up nicely!
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8 years 5 months ago #462439 by One Wish
If speed isn't important, or need to skip post processing, the JPG


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8 years 5 months ago #462487 by Otto F
Now with all the technology will one day the processing differences between RAW and JPG be to minor to distinguish differences between each other? 


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8 years 5 months ago #462537 by Joves
To Otto no I do not think there will be a day where the supposed lossless Jpeg format will be adopted, or be proven to be as good as a RAW data file.
As to the OPs question why not shoot both. And yeah whatever the people who claim wear&tear on the card have been smoking the really bad crack. Cards only see data, and RAW data is not different than Jpeg data to a card, it is all ones& zeroes.


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8 years 5 months ago #462541 by Soccer Mom
I'm trying to think when I don't use RAW.  Even when I'm shooting sports or fast moving items, I shoot RAW.  I guess I'm 100% full time RAW these days. 

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8 years 5 months ago #462547 by JaneK
My iPhone shoots in JPG, so when I have my DSLR in my hand no, it's always in RAW


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8 years 5 months ago #462557 by ShutterPal
That is true till they come out with cell phone that takes RAW photos 


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8 years 5 months ago #462664 by Don Fischer
I've tried shooting in RAW and it's more work then I want. I don't PP much at all, got a few program's and can't do squat with any of them! I can process just a bit in Picasa and that's enough for me. I think where raw is worth while is in shooting photo art. then you can make the photo look pretty much any way you want. I don't do that.


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8 years 5 months ago #462693 by Vahrenkamp
I use RAW format about 98% of the time.  The only time I don't is with my iPhone.  


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