A good example of the advantages of RAW. My DH's grandmother was here to visit us. This was probably a once in a life time trip as she is in her 80's and won't be able to travel much anymore. For whatever reason, my flash was misfiring. Wouldn't you know the pictures that were near perfect in exposure were "eh" and the ones where the flash misfired and therefore badly exposed had the best expressions. Shooting in RAW I was able to bring those up easily. They look great! Had I shot them in jpg I wouldn't have had half the latitude that I did with the RAWs. Maybe I could have brought jpgs up some but not without a struggle and the results would not been half as good. Same thing with a pic of DH and Grandma being overexposed (I forgot to reset after something else.) It was a matter of a couple of sliders to bring it down a bit, easy peasy. Had it been jpg I would have lost all sorts of detail. I always, always take more shots then needed and in these cases I was able to turn the bad ones with great expressions into good ones, if I'd shot jpg my "keepers" would have been the "eh" pics.
So happy with my decision to go RAW all the time, I would have lost pics from a one time only visit.
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