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Raw or not to raw

Started Dec 3, 2016 | Discussions thread
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markyboy81 Veteran Member • Posts: 4,778
Raw or not to raw
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Over the years I've toyed with the idea of shooting raw but have never actually done it. I've read countless articles on the subject so I thought today will be the day I try it out.

I shot a whole batch of photos (mostly of my son in the park on a cloudy day) in raw+jpg.

When I went through them I wanted to reduce the highlights on most of them. At first I did this with the raw file using Polarr. Out of interest I tried the same thing with the jpeg and found that I could achieve exactly the same result (to my untrained eye, and viewed on a 27" 4k screen). Admittedly the highlights weren't really that blown, but I was still surprised that there was so much I could do with the jpeg. An added benefit of the jpeg (for me) is that the image has already been sharpened and corrected so I preferred it to the raw file. I'm sure I could have got the raw file to my liking but I'm questioning whether I should carry on with raw at all. Am I missing something or are the only certain situations when it's really beneficial to shoot raw?

By the way today I was using the NX 500 plus 30mm.

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