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Originally Posted by Kenny
For quick and dirty pictures, I just shoot in JPG just for the sake of time and file size. Even though I have a 32 gb memory card, shooting in RAW takes too much time to edit and the file sizes are just cumbersome to deal with. Simple color/contrast/exposure Photoshop adjustments work fine on JPG files and besides, you're not going to upload 1920x1080 resolution pictures to your online photo album and nobody wants to wait for a picture of that size to load. Unless you're shooting a wedding or some super important event, JPG is fine.
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Editing a RAW image for exposure etc, then re-rezzing and/or resizing as a JPEG for an online photo album or something will result in a superior image to just shooting the thing in JPEG. There's nothing magic or esoteric about RAW. Rather than reserving this very basic concept for some super important event, it's more accurate to say RAW photo editing should be used anytime you have images that you care about. It's true however, if you're just doing snapshots, or if you don't understand basic photography, editing in JPEG is probably "good enough" and letting the camera make all the imaging decisions is reasonable.