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Some thoughts on Canon CR2 RAW versus out of camera JPEG

Started Aug 21, 2017 | Discussions thread
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Re: Some thoughts on Canon CR2 RAW versus out of camera JPEG

Perhaps a more elegant solution would be to shoot RAW+JPG, and then sort by file kind during import; archive the RAWs and keep the JPEGs. Flow your JPEGs into Photos like before (you shot RAW), and archive off the RAWs for future use if you're unhappy with a result, you can search by file name in spotlight to pull up the corresponding RAW image. Then you can pop it open in DPP4, make your edits, dump to JPEG and suck the resultant image/s back into Photos. That's what I do. Also I call up RAWs when I print images too for maximum resolution and color accuracy and print straight from DPP4, when I have a RAW available for something I want to print. Looks "better" than printing the same OOC JPEG, even with no edits as the RAW always has more data.

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