RAW vs JPEG

[Ronnoco]

Under very tight time restrictions and taking a lot of shots for either journalistic use or digital presentation, I use JPEG and shoot for minimal post processing.

When more time is available as in portraits, advertising, public relations, art photography etc., then RAW is ideal, but top quality post processing with raw format is very time consuming.

Ronnoco

[freygr]

I should be using RAW, but I have not seen the need. I have not seen that much loss of detail nor any problems adjusting colors, britness, contast, gama etc or editing the JPEG photos compared to RAW. I know that I can't adjust the white balance but I mostly shoot landscapes or sports, and of crouse the snap shoots of family. I hardly ever have to use photo shop. I do almost all the editing inside Thumbs Plus, with the digi camera raw plugin installed.

[jorgemonkey]

When I'm at work doing my product shots, I usually shoot .Jpg or when I'm shooting a sporting event. When shooting anything else I use RAW. My workflow when I'm doing shooting is this:

1. Download all files to a "To Process" folder.

2. Using ACDSee 8, I go through all the images and delete the bad ones

3. Sometimes I'll wait a day or two and look at the images again and delete a few more

4. Batch rename all the files that are left by date, and move them to the folder where they will stay.

5. I also tag them in ACDSee so I know which ones I'd like to work on later edit.