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Like many others, for a long time, I made every excuse that I could to avoid shooting RAW, and I continued to shoot jpegs. It is, perhaps, a part of human nature to resist change and to avoid having to go through learning how to do something new, and shooting RAW does involve learning and developing (new) processing skills. Somewhere along the line, however, like many others, I had to accept the fact that, if I wanted to best finished product I could get, that I needed to shoot RAW. Shooting RAW does not eliminate the need to
"get it right" at the time you are shooting. If you are off by a stop and a half on your exposure, even shooting RAW, you are not going to be able to get back burned highlights or bring back shadow detail without introducing large amounts of noise. But, shooting RAW does give you more latitude and room for adjustment. As has already been said, in some types of shooting, such as
action wildlife shooting, you need to be able to react quickly to what is going on around you, and it isn't always possible to be perfect in your exposure as you are reacting to something that is happening in very different light than what you had a few seconds earlier.
What I also don't understand is the complaint about RAW taking more time. When I shoot RAW, making a few quick adjustments before conversion allows me to spend far less time working with the images in PS after conversion. My total time working on RAW images is no greater, and perhaps even less, than the amount of time I would be spending working with jpeg images. If the pictures are taken properly in the first place and if I've made the proper (and quick) adjustments, if needed, before conversion, I find that most images need little to be done to them after
conversion in PS. The only extra time that RAW takes me is the actual time that it takes to convert the images. With a converter like C1, however, that time is minimized. Since I can be converting images in the background while I'm still working on other images, by the time I've finished reviewing/adjusting the batch of RAW images, a big part of the batch has already been converted. Even if the whole batch has not been converted, I can start the finishing touches in PS of the images that have been converted while the converter is finishing the batch. The only place where I would see jpegs saving me time would be if I were sending the images off to somewhere else
without doing anything to them at all. If you are doing any editing/processing at all, RAW really doesn't take any more time than does jpeg to get it right. Many like to think that it does because, again, we look for excuses to avoid doing what we don't want to do.
So, like others have said, I don't shoot jpegs either, and I can't imagine that I will ever go back to shooting them.
Les
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