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Canon G9: JPG or RAW? Why?

Started Feb 3, 2015 | Questions thread
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Re: Canon G9: JPG or RAW? Why?

v steffel wrote:

Skippy,

Thanks for stating why you prefer JPGs with the GP

Thanks for providing your suggested settings in JPG. I will experiment with them.

I look forward to learning much more about photography with the G9.

Thank you but don't get me wrong. I'm not against RAW and there are definite quality gains to be had from the mode but, I think a JPEG gets you 90% of the way there and a few pulls and pushes on the slide bars in Lightroom gets you to the 99% point without too much fuss. Like anything, the law of diminishing returns applies to digital imaging.

I just shot a series with my G15 today, in some difficult high contrast situations and I'm going to play with the JPEGs and RAW files to see what I need to do to get both to look as good as they can. I love to experiment when I have time and it reinforces my conclusions (or refutes them), I'm always open to a better way.

Cheers.

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