RAW or RAW + JPG?

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As the title really... when you're just doing hobby shots or on a day out and snapping for memories, do you do photos in JPG as well as RAW?

I can't quite decide, after all if I convert the ones I want to keep "just because" it won't take long without PP, however it is another step. That said both takes up a hell of a lot of room on my memory card!


Can't quite decide how to organise all this yet :cuckoo:
 
I just shoot in RAW most of the time, unless i'm doing product shoots, then I will use RAW + JPEG (fine setting)

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Everybody has different views on this. Personally I shoot just in jpeg for general day to day photography. However if it is for something special, a wedding, a special event or a particular subject then I use RAW. Obviously as a hobbiest it's not quite so important as it is for a pro photographer.
 
Until a few weeks ago I had always det the camera to shoot RAW. Then I went to an sporting venue and the site owner asked me to do some promotional shots so I thought I'd shoot RAW+JPG (Fine) to cut down on PP effort and time.

I think from now on I'll use that setting whenever I might want to be able to give someone JPGs without needing to provide "absolutely best" quality.

HTH :)
 
RAW mostly but for casual snaps I use jpeg - the thing on the D300s where it will write RAW to one card and jpeg to the other as a backup sounds pretty cool.
 
aligibbs said:
I always shoot just RAW on my camera- since I only get 130 shots on a 4gb card with RAW!
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That's odd. I use an 8Gig card and I get 534 shots in RAW.
 
I don't know about the Canon, but the D90 is a crop-senser, is it not?
 
Arkady said:
I don't know about the Canon, but the D90 is a crop-senser, is it not?
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Yup it is.



Argh still can't decide - silly question probably, but if I just popped them through ViewNX to convert to JPGs, would they come out as good as if the camera did it internally?
 
Coaster said:
That's odd. I use an 8Gig card and I get 534 shots in RAW.
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12megapixel vs. 21megapixel.
Crop sensor vs. Full frame.

I shoot in RAW for most things, but switch to JPEG for motorsport, or other things that require a quick continuous shooting. The 1000D's continuous mode in RAW is painfully slow.

I've not felt the need to use up card space by shooting in both.
 
I have been taking in Raw, downloading and then converting to JPG by right clicking and using instant jpg from raw.
 
I'll shoot in jpeg unless the lighting conditions dictate otherwise - by the time you download the raw files, possibly converting them to dng or whatever, then process them to even look like nearly as good as the OOC jpeg's look, it's a lot of your precious time... different for pro's though.
 
I really don't see the point of saving in both formats on your card. If you need a RAW file and a jpeg file then just take them in RAW and batch convert them into a seperate folder. It is just as quick as downloading both formats.
 
Strangways said:
I really don't see the point of saving in both formats on your card. If you need a RAW file and a jpeg file then just take them in RAW and batch convert them into a seperate folder. It is just as quick as downloading both formats.
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quite agree all raw files have a jpeg inside them, so why shoot the shot twice and waste space on your card.:shrug: edit i dont mean shoot it twice i mean save it twice
 
I tend to shoot Raw and JPEG, and hardly ever touch the Raw. It's there 'just in case' but in practise unless I've made a mistake I just output the JPEG.

If you're shooting Raw anyway, adding a fine JPEG takes up very little more memory.

BTW, if you shoot Raw, the number of images you get on a card is dictated by the pixel count. With JPEG, the files get knocked down to the same size regardless of the size of the original, and that size varies a bit depending on the picture content and how much compression the JPEG process can do, eg large areas of a common tone can be compressed to tiny files without any loss of significant data.
 
I shoot in RAW only. As I have a Mac the computer displays RAW files just as easily as JPG files.
 
cowasaki said:
I shoot in RAW only. As I have a Mac the computer displays RAW files just as easily as JPG files.
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So does my Windows machine. Microsoft do a RAW viewer. You just download it and away you go.
 
Depends on the camera

Ususlly just raw, however, one of my cameras has 2 card slots, where I can shoot RAW onto one and JPEG onto the other, which I do... in which case, if one card fails, I am not stuffed

I allways prefer to PP raw files, and have a lossless workflow. This is in addition to the other benefits of doing the RAW conversions yourself

You can easily batch a set of JPEG's froma set of raw files. I use the theory that once something is lost it is lost, and if you only shoot JPEG's, you are most certainly loosing something

There is one exception to this. Event setups. At an event setup, the extra processing a RAW file requires over a JPEG is enough to be a PIA. In such circumstances, when you have confirmed your setup is shooting crackers, its worth switching over to JPEG's. You can do this with peace of mind if you know that very little changes from shot to shot
 
grum said:
RAW mostly but for casual snaps I use jpeg - the thing on the D300s where it will write RAW to one card and jpeg to the other as a backup sounds pretty cool.
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Cool? Maybe, Useful, sometimes. I use this all the time but 80% of the time I just format the jpg card as it's not used. Personally it's great for a quick view for someone else (The Mrs) whereas I process RAW on the laptop myself.

As mentioned you havea backup which is great if something should go wrong.
 
dinorock said:
quite agree all raw files have a jpeg inside them, so why shoot the shot twice and waste space on your card.:shrug: edit i dont mean shoot it twice i mean save it twice
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Mike, the problem with using the embedded jpg is that it's ony "basic" quality.
 
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