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look at the quality of pictures in any Newspaper or Mag or any kind of publication. an iPhone would do never mind a Raw File, if you do it for your own satisfaction then carry on, but no one else cares.
Umm, no. A lot of news photos are taken in RAW. Have you done any press work? Had any of your shots published in magazines? It's true that a lot of what turns up on breakfast tables is pretty simple. But so is driving along an empty road is a good car. A press photographer has to get the shot right, every time, or they are no longer a press photographer. Knowing you can do this, and being entrusted by editors to do this, is the point.
Try and get those things right when you take the picture, Photoshop can do all those things and more f you have the time.
No, it can't.
What you say is right, I did try Raw like everyone else but found no benefit.
That's because you haven't learned to use it properly yet.
Slow buffering between Camera and Card
Buffer sizes and speeds are rarely a problem with a modern camera - and if you know how to use it properly. Can you give us a couple of examples of when you ran out of buffer?
very large files that can't be seen or printed, having to revert to the Jpeg you try to avoid to start with, Photoshop and Camera capable of doing anything you might wish.
Others have tried to put forward the reasons why you should use Raw Files and trot out all the same opinions they have read somewhere, none of which is a real benefit.
And you are also correct in saying I just like to get out there and shoot jpeg. My feeling is Photographers today get too caught up in the technicalities, too caught up in chasing the next big and better thing, whether it be Cameras or Lenses, Tripods, Lighting etc. they get locked into the thought that they will never be a good photographer until they have all that most expensive equipment. I would say if you have all that spare time to sit in front of your 30 inch screen peeping at all the supposed imperfect pixels, try using some of that to look back at Photographers who never had a 10th of your stuff, who went out and produced superlative photographs with nothing more than a 35mm Camera and a few rolls of Film, and follow their example, and I don't mean go buy a Film Camera.
Photographer in the past used the best equipment available. Always did, always will. Photography is far more to do with ability than equipment. Cameras don't take photographs.
I've bolded a couple of bits above, where you express opinions. You are quite entitled to these, but please don't spout off about how the rest of us - many of whom make our living as photographers - are wrong.