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Originally Posted by Cmike2780
Totally agree. I was just thinking it might just be too much and possibly discouraging for someone starting out...especially if you don't know your way around a camera ....let alone a program like Photoshop. It might just be me and probably in my head, but I tend to think jpeg encourages shooting more pics. Something people who are new to photography often don't do enough of. No one likes having to edit in post.
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It's true, JPEG is the province of the snapshot shooter because it takes up less memory card space and is faster in editing programs like Photoshop becasue it's a smaller image file. Additionally, most of the cameras out there apply various image manipulation algorythms to JPEGS (in addition to compression)
in the camera to adjust the image to have a color balance etc that the camera manufacturer thinks that the photographer will think is a pleasing image. From my standpoint, I'd rather make those decisions myself, hence I prefer to shoot in RAW. Doing so, I can adjust, for example, the exposure of the image just exactly as if I'd had the camera's exposure set differently. With JPEG, I can only apply an overlay of lightness or darkness (with all the added artifact that implies), not change the actual exposure settings.