Quote Originally Posted by Ronnoco
No, wrong approach. Shoot raw + jpeg all day. Process your raw, do the transfer to jpeg, then compare. Blow up areas of one colour and look for colour noise. Look at detail in both the bright areas and the dark areas. Look at colour, particularly in the areas you processed in RAW versus the areas in the jpeg. Do selective processing on the jpeg files and the standard global processing on the raw files.

Then you will really see, which format, fits your style and level of experience and knowlege.

Ronnoco
Ok, I can see the point in that. For me shooting in raw exclusively worked because I had a good feel for what the camera was giving with jpeg.

Here's two raw file conversions from Picasa
http://gallery.photographyreview.com...PICT0830-1.JPG
http://gallery.photographyreview.com...83PICT0827.JPG