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Advantages to shooting raw?
#21
Posted 21 October 2013 - 12:18 PM
#23
Posted 21 October 2013 - 02:37 PM
As your post-processing skills get better you will look back at some of your earlier efforts and think, "I can do that way better now". If you have the original raw final you're set, no worries. If you just have the jpeg you can still do it, but every time you re-save a jpeg file, it re-compresses it and loses a little quality, if you keep updating your skills/software and keep updating your files (which is very tempting believe me) then it's best to use the raw file that never gets changed by editing (raw editing does not change the raw file, it just records the changes in the file or in a separate file that gets re-applied every time you open the raw file).
Buy more, bigger cards.
#24
Posted 21 October 2013 - 03:52 PM
Memory has gotten quite inexpensive. Buying a couple of 16 or 32 MB cards will make life easier for you. I agree with you alden, I do not shoot RAW + JPG I see no need to.