[kirbinster]

Originally Posted by velvet4269

I shoot RAW + JPG for a couple of reasons: 1)I can quickly go through the files on my windows machine & decide which ones I want to keep and which ones I simply can't save, and 2) the JPG has all my EXIF info, whereas once I'm done processing my RAW photo, I have nothing. Not all my RAW photos get the same processing, and I'm kinda stuck using the stuff I have on hand (although I'm about to shell out the money for the mac mini-DVI converter so I can hook up my macbook to my big monitor & see about using GIMP to do processing ... still doesn't solve the EXIF problem, though; that I still have to add in post-processing with EXIFER). I pretty much have to buy a new computer before I can upgrade from PS7.

All my computer stuff is pretty ancient My Mac's still running Tiger, and my PC is a Celeron :\ "New Computer" is actually on my list before "New Lens"

If you download the latest codecs from MS you can view the thumbnails of raw photos in windows explorer just like you would view jpegs. If you were to use Lightroom you would have all the exif data from the raw. If you don't want to spend the money you can still use the free program "Instant Jpeg from raw" and the extracted jpeg has all the exif data in it.