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Originally Posted by manwez
My camera has the option to shoot RAW + jpg so it takes one of each. Do you think that is a good idea or not a good idea, or indifferent? I've been trying to figure out the advantages to shooting in RAW and you might finally have me convinced!  Great save! |
Shooting in RAW will give you more data to salvage in case you, like in this example, over-expose an image. You can go into a RAW editor (if you have Photoshop you already have a RAW editor...and I'm sure there's a free open-source one floating around somewhere you can download) and adjust the exposure +/- 2 stops... perhaps more in certain circumstances. You can also edit saturation, contrast, brightness, etc without losing/damaging as much data as it would if you adjusted these same things regularly in PS.
So, in short, RAW is great if you edit your photos often. If you don't do any editing at all and shoot a lot, then there's no point in having a large RAW file taking up space on your hard drive.