JPEG or RAW?

Simon · 21st August 2007, 12:30

Just wanted to hear peoples opinions of what picture format they shoot in. Both has it's advantages.

I always shoot in RAW. It gives me total freedom during post-processing. I then convert to 16-bit TIFFS so I don't lose any details through compression. Only when I need to submit them to the internet do I then resize the TIFF's into a reasonable size and usually export at 80% quality (sometimes 100% quality if I can get away with it).

BMC123 · 21st August 2007, 13:04

RAW usually, unless I am just doing "snapshots" when I set the camera in full auto and JPG fine modes.

lightpainter · 21st August 2007, 17:03

RAW + JPG, raw for processing, and jpg because my card reader can’t see RAW on its own!

DavidJ · 21st August 2007, 18:09

RAW for me as well.

JohnDotCom · 21st August 2007, 20:22

Always Raw for taking photographs.
No other way is good enough I think.

r44712 · 22nd August 2007, 14:04

Images in the RAW file format must be huge!!! A fan of JPG myself, more than sufficies for the average punter (assuming the compression rate is not overkill)....

Raistlin · 22nd September 2007, 09:39

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Originally Posted by lightpainter

RAW + JPG, raw for processing, and jpg because my card reader can’t see RAW on its own!

After a little experimentation, that's what I've settled on.

It's like using the jpeg files as a sort of index to find the pictures you want to take further. Thumbs plus does this very well for me.

You don't have to open individual RAW files in PS just to see what the picture is.

mantianak · 22nd September 2007, 09:57

I looked into getting RAW formats to preview in XP before. I found this...
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...displaylang=en

I didn't bother using it because I have an Olympus. It maybe worth having a try and leting us know if it works

Simon · 22nd September 2007, 20:17

Quote:

Originally Posted by mantianak

I looked into getting RAW formats to preview in XP before. I found this...
https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...displaylang=en

I didn't bother using it because I have an Olympus. It maybe worth having a try and leting us know if it works

Funny you should mention that because I downloaded this the other day. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to like my RAW files and doesn't display them in the viewer. Doh!

Simon W · 28th September 2007, 10:09

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Originally Posted by lightpainter

RAW + JPG, raw for processing, and jpg because my card reader can’t see RAW on its own!

Pete - surely it's not the hardware (i.e. the card reader) but the image viewing software that can't see your RAW files.

By the way, this is a good general purpose image viewer with some basic tweaking functions (crop, re-size, greyscale, etc, etc). The thumbnail viewer is very useful but the programme can't read RAW files:

http://www.irfanview.com/

The software is written by an Austrian chap called Irfan Skiljan and it's free for home use and for libraries, universities, schools, etc. Irfan is a pretty helpful sort and will answer emails if you have any tech-type questions.

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