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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;geekpryde, post: 26057263, member: 36248&quot;]In this thread, several people over several years ago already made excellent points about why RAW is so much better than shooting jpg, but I will add my two cents.</p><p><br /></p><p>I shoot raw for coins, but to me, that&#039;s not really a great use case for why raw is so much better.&nbsp;&nbsp; Why do I say that?&nbsp; Well, if you don&#039;t like your static studio shot of a coin or a vase or a product, you just shoot 10 more until you are happy. The coin isn&#039;t going anywhere,&nbsp; easy.</p><p><br /></p><p>Try that at a wedding,&nbsp; doesn&#039;t work.&nbsp; The bride is not waiting for you as she walks down the isle.&nbsp;&nbsp; You either get the shot or you miss the shot, there are no re-dos.&nbsp;&nbsp; Same with wildlife photography, and less to with architectural and landscape photography.&nbsp; &nbsp; But once you shoot raw for anything, you will understand the power, and then once your are fast with the workflow, I can&#039;t imagine anyone going back to jpg shooting.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>For you non-photography people,&nbsp; your one-word takeaway about why raw is 1000x better than non-raw is &quot;forgiving&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp; Shooting raw is very forgiving of photographer mistakes.&nbsp; &nbsp; All you need to do is nail the focus and nail the composition, Raw can fix most other mistakes, at least enough to make a bad image passable.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you nail the perfect exposure, aperture, shutter speed, and ISO on 90%+ of all your shots, yeah, you probably don&#039;t NEED to shoot in raw.&nbsp; &nbsp; Hats off to you.&nbsp;&nbsp; If you are like me, and probably most other advanced amateurs, you are not going to nail the exposure all the time.&nbsp;&nbsp; Raw is VERY forgiving if you left a bad setting on the camera, or accidentally nudged a dial.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have completely blown the exposure on important photos, even had totally wrong camera settings, but raw was there to &quot;save the day&quot; and &quot;save my bacon&quot; by allowing me to take a near BLACK image (way way underexposed) or WHITE image (way way overexposed) and bring it back to looking normal.&nbsp; &nbsp; Again, for coin photography not really relevant, but for things that move, like kids and birds, and events that are once-in-a-lifetime,&nbsp; or the perfect shot that everyone is smiling in, RAW will save your behind if you screw up the white balance, (easy to do if you bounce between indoor outdoor photography), or you over and underexposed, or the flash was running low on batteries at a critical moment.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So why would you ever not shoot raw by choice?&nbsp;&nbsp; Even if you are perfect most of the time, what about the one time you aren&#039;t and you wish you could have saved the perfect shoot of your grandkids, but you were an ardent jpg only shooter?&nbsp; Sad day for you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ok, that was a lot of words!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>TLDR:</b>&nbsp; &nbsp; RAW is amazing and &quot;ruined&quot; photos can be saved with postprocessing software like Adobe Lightroom with a few clicks.&nbsp;&nbsp; Why wouldn&#039;t you shoot raw?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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