Great way to compare RAW and Jpeg

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I'm sure a lot of you do this anyway but for me it was quite an eye-opener. I shot RAW and JPEG for an event, loaded the pictures into Adobe's Bridge 4 programme and - wow - going through the pictures in slideshow view shows you exactly what you've lost and gained side-by-side. Wow.

I rarely shoot RAW due to workflow issues but my eyes have finally be opened, though funnily enough I did prefer a few jpegs (or rather what the camera had processed) over the RAW given data so maybe it's worth shooting in both formats in the future.

It shocked me enough to write this thread what can I say :-)
 
Nikon cameras are able to shoot/write RAW and Jpeg at the same time, not that I can see where I would use this?
 
raw all the way my friend ever since i changed to raw i,ve never looked back so much more you can do with it :thumbs:
 
my D60 can shoot in RAW and JPEG, however the Jpeg if I remember correctly is a low quality one.
 
Comes in handy if the machine you have access to doesn't support the RAW. This happened to me recently when I knew there was a risk the machine I'd be with wouldn't be up to date, so I shot in RAW and JPG on the 5d2. Just as well as their machines were still running CS2.
 
i always shoot raw+jpeg on my Canon. Use Raw for processing and if i need to do any quick prints for family etc i can just chuck the memory card in my printer and it will print the JPEGS.
 
I think that most cameras make a pretty good job of the jpeg conversion, as long as you give them a decently exposed file to work with.

If you look at it that way, as long as you get the exposure right(ish) then the camera jpeg should be as near enough to a RAW that's processed after the event...... and with a histogram, there is no real excuse not to get the exposure right.

So....... that would pretty much leave RAW as something there just for bad photographers and control freaks.


For what it's worth, I shoot RAW. :lol:
 
I take all my pics in RAW, edit in Lightroom then export to iPhoto as jpeg, mainly as I assumed it would be better for uploading to various sites etc... Should I do that, if i email raw to someone, or try to load a raw pic to ebay for example will i have problems?
 
Previously I've not been able to slideshow JPEG and RAW side-by-side. Adobe Bridge 4 I think allows you to do that (I'm sure lots of other software does to), so you're able to see shot-by-shot what's missing and what was, I guess, spot on when taking the shot as processed jpeg.

I don't tend to shoot RAW because I prefer the workflow of working with jpegs but it's interesting on *some* shots what you can get back (I guess I'm referring to interior shots from what I've seen so far).

It was very exciting (for me anyway) :p :)
 
I always shoot Raw and Large JPEG.

Raw for editing and the Large JPEG is used for referencing and quick review
 
voodoochild said:
Nikon cameras are able to shoot/write RAW and Jpeg at the same time, not that I can see where I would use this?
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My camera does that too and I can select the quality of the jpeg.
I always shoot RAW + low quality jpeg.
The reason being that the RAW files just show up in the PSE editor as an icon. I'd need to open the file to see what the pic was, whereas the associated jpeg is there beside the RAW icon as a thumbnail and I can see what is in the pic and if I have made a complete hash of it can just discard the jpeg+RAW without going to any more trouble.
 
Why shoot RAW and a jpeg at the same time?

If you are producing, say, 150 - 180 shots, for tomorrow, for publishing. You don't get home until 10pm...the jpegs go straight on a CD and off to the picture desk. The RAW are there for stock for better quality archiving - and if there are a few worth working on for the CD, you can do it...RAW alone you would have to process and tweak the whole bloody lot - at 10pm after a hard day? No thanks.

yesterday for example. I was on the road for 05.30 having not got to bed until gone 1. I was on the water working until 10.30 - then had to drive from Poole to the Midlands in time to download, charge batteries etc to do bikes today. No, I did not want to process RAW when I got home this morning at 04.00......above workflow saves a huge amount of time.
 
Sorry to jump on your thread.

If you shoot raw, when the processing has been done what file type do you save it as?

TIFF or JPEG, or something else.
 
I cheat, I just shoot raw and extract the inbuilt jpegs if I need them it saves card space.
 
mr_v_s said:
I did prefer a few jpegs (or rather what the camera had processed) over the RAW given data so maybe it's worth shooting in both formats in the future.
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This is a comparison of apples and oranges really - the JPEGs out of the camera include all the in-camera processing done to them and RAWs are not. Besides, Bridge will display not the RAW file itself, but a JPEG thumbnail from it which depending on the camera may be not really a good quality. Even if that thumbnail is not present then it will be displaying RAW with some default processing applied which can be no match for what happened in camera.

So if you want to compare them side by side, then you really need to compare the JPEGs with the "developed" (processed RAW)...
 
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