[fletch]

The point I don't get is when people say shoot JPEG is they often quote it is quicker and easier. I don't get it.

Easier? RAWs are way easier to edit properly that JPEGs if you use a decent RAW editor. As someone said you can have entirely the same workflow with RAW as you can with JPEG these days and hit "Save as" instead of "save". It's also much easier not to settle for default settings with RAW, instead of fidling arround with buttons on the back of your camera, having to remeber to check your settings after every shoot (and sometimes during) and spending hours editing if you get it wrong you just play with a few sliders in front of the computer. If you want the default settings then just press "save as" or convert as a batch. Operating systems even have RAW codecs now so you can view the thumbnails.

Faster? Its faster to shoot in RAW as you can forget about all of the pre shooting settings checks. Its faster to edit if you need to, if you don't you can convert in a batch. It may take a little processing time but no longer than applying basic edits to your JPEGs in the same way. My laptop can convert 4GB of RAW into JPEG in about 30 mins. Its a fairly basic spec as well so not light speed.

Try it. You will love it. Even your Ken.

As for "dropping the KR bomb" its not against the rules but has been known to cause controversy! I'd shy away from it.