Dear Ronk,

I shoot RAW for two reasons. One is when I want the maximum resolution obtainable from digital (very sharp texture or fine detail -- though even 35mm film still wins hands down for this, just as 120 thrashes 35mm). The other is for long brightness ranges. In both cases I post-process with DxO, an amazing product, to get TIFF files.

But normally I am in control of the lighting (in the studio) or just don't need the extra quality, and shooting high-quality JPEG saves so much time and effort that there's no contest.

Cheers,

Roger (www.rogerandfrances.com)

thanks

I'm an older fellow, it's hard to keep up with all the new technology but I won't give up. Could you let me know what DxO means.

As John Paul Jones said, never give up that ship! DXO is a company name out of France that develops image processing systems. They do things like automatic exposure correction in-camera, lens distortion correction for specific lenses and other amazing stuff.

Since I never know before hand where an image will go, I always shoot RAW. With the memory cards getting faster all the time, I can wait 11 seconds (currently). Plus, I don't mind spending the time to go through the images and making corrections as necessary. I have a lot of this process automated any way (with actions in Photoshop CS).

John Fagerberg