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Some thoughts on Canon CR2 RAW versus out of camera JPEG

Started Aug 21, 2017 | Discussions thread
shk12
shk12 Regular Member • Posts: 431
Re: Some thoughts on Canon CR2 RAW versus out of camera JPEG

Mecca66 wrote:

Stan in NH wrote:

The limitations become apparent if you need to recover over or under exposed parts of an image. For me, there seems to be a real difference in the quality of cropped images as well. I can sharpen without the dreaded halo effect creeping in. I guess I'm back to shooting RAW again. There are few downsides, and the potential for some significant upsides. The bottom line is that I now have a higher percentage of "keepers" than I did before.

Your paragraph above says it all.

exactly,

the cameras are very smart and can produce a good or great image all by their self, but sometimes the camera doesn't make the best decisions, if you shoot JPEG only, you don't get to add that data back.

as cheap as memory cards are RAW+JPEG is the way to go, in my humble opinion

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