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What is the best workflow for amateur usage?

Started 9 months ago | Discussions thread
Andy01 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,188
Re: What is the best workflow for amateur usage?
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The obvious solution (to me anyway) is to shoot RAW + JPEG, and only use the RAW files when you need to.

I am not sure I understand your comment about this option slowing things down because of the card ? Do you shoot a lot of sustained bursts ? Or do you use a very old/cheap slow card ?

I would have expected the responsiveness of the camera to be pretty much the same for RAW + JPEG as it is for JPEG only (assuming you are using a good high speed card) - as long as you are taking single shots or short bursts with a pause in between bursts - the camera's buffer should take car of this. Obviously if you are shooting longer bursts or lots of short bursts in quick succession, then things will slow down.

Personally I do not follow your type of workflow at all because I shoot RAW only, convert to TIFF (16 bit) on my desktop after doing a first pass cull and applying lens corrections etc in Canon's DPP, and then open the TIFFs in LR to edit further. My photography is not (at al) for social media though so I do appreciate that many people will want to get through things a lot quicker than I do.

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