Shooting in RAW format?

[RLJSlick]

Hey guys I haven't seen much talk about shooting in the RAW format, and just wonder what you guys think? Is it worth it, or are you guys just as happy shooting in JPEG?

[Norm in Fujino]

Hey guys I haven't seen much talk about shooting in the RAW format, and just wonder what you guys think? Is it worth it, or are you guys just as happy shooting in JPEG?

I shoot RAW almost exclusively, and use shoot JPEG only when I know I won't be very concerned with what's going to happen to the photos afterwards.
My converter of choice is Silkypix, FWIW. I also keep RSP on the computer, but haven't used it much. If you're going to shoot RAW, be sure to try out several different third-party converters in addition to your camera mfgr's proprietary software, since they demonstrate varying levels of ability to handle different cameras' RAW files. I use Silkypix because it seems to have the best feature set and the best ability to reproduce Olympus colors next to Olympus Studio/Master, which IMO are too slow.

[RLJSlick]

Thank you for the info, I will look into Silkypix ASAP. I've played around with it a bit here and there, but never done anything to seriously with it, but now that photo editing software pretty much all have a RAW convertor I thought it was time to revisited it. I well concern is the size and logistical work using RAW. My 10D now seem to do fine with it, but it's very slow, I see that the 30D will be much faster, but there are still things like speed of downloading, speeding editing and storage space. I've taking something like 10,000 pic with my 10D and if you times that by 14MB or so, that get pretty big really fast. May need another 300GB HD I think. :)




I shoot RAW almost exclusively, and use shoot JPEG only when I know I won't be very concerned with what's going to happen to the photos afterwards.
My converter of choice is Silkypix, FWIW. I also keep RSP on the computer, but haven't used it much. If you're going to shoot RAW, be sure to try out several different third-party converters in addition to your camera mfgr's proprietary software, since they demonstrate varying levels of ability to handle different cameras' RAW files. I use Silkypix because it seems to have the best feature set and the best ability to reproduce Olympus colors next to Olympus Studio/Master, which IMO are too slow.

[MBCook]

I just got my dSLR, but I'll give you my two cents.

I've been shooting in RAW exclusively. I've got a large enough memory card that I can take over 250 RAW shots. Why not? You can adjust it better (white balance wise), you don't lose anything (lossy compression, even when high quality, is still lossy).

What do I use for RAW? I've just been using iPhoto. It imports them fine, and if I make adjustments it performs those and saves it as a JPEG, while always keeping the untouched RAW around. The benefits of RAW with the simplicity of JPEGs.

I don't know if I'll change what I do later, but for now, this is working great.