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p.1 #8 · shooting RAW versus JPG | |
You can fix white balance problems in RAW mode far easier than in JPG's. When you fail to get white balance precisely right when shooting, this capability is worth a great deal.
Moreover, JPG uses "lossy compression," so inevitably you lose some of the information in your original capture when you or your camera converts to JPG. This loss shows up as "JPG artifacts" -- little interlaced blocks of color at the "few-pixel" resolution. Even worse, when you edit and save a JPG file, you lose information *again* (i.e., get more artifacts).
If you're just sharing photos on the web it probably doesn't matter. If you're looking to do substantial post-processing and to make high quality prints, especially at larger sizes, it's important to preserve as much information as possible.
Edited on Dec 07, 2007 at 04:39 PM
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