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Just curious what you shoot on private holidays. Raw or JPG?

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Hi Guys,

last time when I went to canada I returned home with 1300 pictures. I all shoot them in JPG but am curious... do you shoot jpg too on holidays or still always RAW ?

I did it in jpg because I was a bit scary about the huge PP time...
 
95% jpgs for family and general shots. If I see something with potential for a nice print I will shoot RAW..

John
twan said:
Hi Guys,

last time when I went to canada I returned home with 1300 pictures. I
all shoot them in JPG but am curious... do you shoot jpg too on
holidays or still always RAW ?

I did it in jpg because I was a bit scary about the huge PP time...
Click to expand...
 
I always shoot RAW. I think it is a reflection of my lack of confidence that I can get it right in the camera. Maybe after I get better (in about 20 years), I'll have more confidence. :O)

Pat
 
I always shoot raw, if for no other reason than to not have to pay attention to white balance. I've saved far too many over or under exposed photo's or messed up white balance with raw corrections to ever shoot jpeg again.
 
I rarely shoot JPG anymore.
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I don't know anything about photography. I just like to press the shutter button and hear that sound.
 
RAW

There is always the risk on holidays that you will capture a good and useful image... Even more useful if it is as a RAW file
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Kari
SLR photography for 40 years
60°15´N 24°03´ E
 
My wife and I spent two months -- one in the eastern EU (Hungary, Czech Rep, Poland) and another month in South Africa, Lesotho, and Swaziland, all on the same trip.

Between the two of us (and I had a 1Ds at the time, in 2004, she had a 10D) we took OVER 20,000 RAW images home with us, backed up onto multiple external hard drives from our laptop as well as two different image tanks. Redundancy was key, because we didn't want to risk losing them if stored on a single device, so we had them stored in at least three separate places at the same time -- backed off to many DVDs, on the external HDD, and on the laptop itself.

Brendan
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I am the last sane person on earth.
 
It took me a couple of years to accept the extra workflow and storage needed for RAW but now I seledom shoot JPG. RAW is much more forgiving with bad WB and slightly off exposures.
 
I now shoot Raw only and use Lightroom. The PP isn't huge - I only need to PP those images that I am going to do something with. It takes me far longer to decide which ones I am going to use.

I try as much as possible to keep down the numbers of shots that I take and delete the non-keepers at the end of each day - but that takes time and discipline. I can't imagine coming back with 20,000 images!
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Chris R
 
try to shoot JPG+RAW or at least RAW for the most part.
vacations are when I see the best sites usually
it is a pain if you want to process each one with individual care though.
i'm still doing some from a 2005 trip haha.

so I try to shoot jpg also or at least do a qucik and sloppy batch conversion of all RAW to look at in the meantime or for the ones I never bother to do carefully (and also to look and see which ones are best)

if it for the paper then often just jpg
they dont' have it set up to really handle anything else.
twan said:
Hi Guys,

last time when I went to canada I returned home with 1300 pictures. I
all shoot them in JPG but am curious... do you shoot jpg too on
holidays or still always RAW ?

I did it in jpg because I was a bit scary about the huge PP time...
Click to expand...
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http://skibum4.smugmug.com
(work in progress, a few galleries up, many more to come)
 
Stephen Houdek said:
I always shoot raw, if for no other reason than to not have to pay
attention to white balance. I've saved far too many over or under
exposed photo's or messed up white balance with raw corrections to
ever shoot jpeg again.
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I spend a considerable amount of time adjusting for the best exposure and then I auto-bracket (+ - 2/3 stops) to make double darn sure I have at least one shot that is close to perfect; even after going through all that I've found that shooting in RAW has occasionally saved a few shots.

Regards,

Joe Kurkjian

Galleries: http://www.pbase.com/jkurkjia



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I shoot both, RAW plus jpeg, but then I shoot Olympus. I'm guessing that Canon will let you do the same?

I use the jpeg for quick processing and web/email posting and the RAW for storage of the original image for those times I find an exceptional shot I want to work further with. Eventually I delete those RAW files that don't warrant further storage as RAW files.

Works for me but please don't carp about the extra storage space required, cards are cheap these days as is external storage.
 
Everywhere, every time, just a habit. With Lightroom, shooting RAW isn't much harder/time consuming than JPEG.

My mother asked me to download some pictures she took a few months ago. I downloaded them, looked at them, figured they needed a bit of WB and exposure tweaking, and then realized they were JPEG and had to figure out how the heck to work on them.
 
I could remove the jpeg settings from my cameras and never miss them... I like having all the data the camera is capable of capturing. PP isn't really an issue, a simple batch process can be used to convert & save for the web or email or whatever...and then of course, having the RAW data allows a great deal of control over those images that warrant the extra time anyway.
 
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