[Jim Bryant]

Well said mate

Originally Posted by RoyL

Tell Mr Ang that he is a moron. How anyone can say that a camera produced jpeg is better than Raw defies all logic. I don't know who the person is but if they are professional wildlife photographers in Africa then there is a possibility that they would say that. You would be amazed at the number of professionals that never get past Auto on their camera's, and they view anything else as Amateur.

I know I have said before that if the general consencis is then follow the one that isn't but in this case I think that the thousands of books, tutorials, courses, diploma's and degree's that stipulate that Raw is the best format would suggest that ang is wrong.

If all things being equal, Raw image has 10megapixels and the jpeg has 10megapixels, the jpeg does not contain a bit bucket for later processing it has already been processed on board the camera and even worse is that the contrast in teh image is increased by the camera to give the impression of sharpness to the eye, whereas Raw is just a collection of bits in a bucket (pixel) all 12 bits and each bit describes the tonality of that image. No Processing is done at all on a Raw image so what the fool is talking about I don't know.