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Is there any discernible difference between shooting in RAW or shooting in JPEG?
I used to shoot in RAW because I accepted the (almost) universal view that RAW was betterthan JPEG.
Until I checked it out - and found that, for me, there was no discernible difference.
There is a great deal of debate on here about the pros and cons of RAW v JPEG - But until now I have seen no comparisons between the two.
So here is a comparison.
For this test I set my 450D to produce both RAW and JPEG (large) from a single shot - so there can be no arguments that the two files were produced a few seconds apart.
These files were produced following the same techniques I use for processing both RAW and JPEGs.
From DPP they were converted to 16 bit TIFF files then using my editing program they were reduced in size to 800px on the long size and saved as a JPEG file at just under 200Kb to fit on here.
Nothing else was done - these files are just as they come from the camera without any other editing:
One is RAW and one is JPEG - but which is which?
I have more to show.
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I used to shoot in RAW because I accepted the (almost) universal view that RAW was betterthan JPEG.
Until I checked it out - and found that, for me, there was no discernible difference.
There is a great deal of debate on here about the pros and cons of RAW v JPEG - But until now I have seen no comparisons between the two.
So here is a comparison.
For this test I set my 450D to produce both RAW and JPEG (large) from a single shot - so there can be no arguments that the two files were produced a few seconds apart.
These files were produced following the same techniques I use for processing both RAW and JPEGs.
From DPP they were converted to 16 bit TIFF files then using my editing program they were reduced in size to 800px on the long size and saved as a JPEG file at just under 200Kb to fit on here.
Nothing else was done - these files are just as they come from the camera without any other editing:
One is RAW and one is JPEG - but which is which?
I have more to show.
.