Should you STOP shooting RAW images? What is the best image format for you and your photography?

As a wildlife videographer what would you suggest filming in JPEG or Raw, and why. Again I’m filming not taking stills.

Why are limitations in editing of JPEGs?

Please what can you say about 'dpi' of images? My pictures kept showing 72dpi but I really need about 300dpi. How can i do this please?

My digital bridge camera doesn't include a Raw setting. Is there another way to duplicate raw photos without the actual setting?

Was wondering, when saving in Jpeg format set to 100% quality, is there still incremental compression with each save? My editing software if it makes a difference is typically Affinity Photo.

I shoot RAW mostly. My M6II has a HDR mode that produces a jpg. I like it, the photos come out pretty good. Anyways, I use RAW for most of my photos and I use my computer to make the jpg pics for facebook, instagram, behance and playbook. Posting seems to take more of my time LOL.

Very good, concise video explaining the advantages/disadvantages of both. One thing to note is that if you do shoot Raw+JPEG you will often lose some of the in-camera settings that are available when shooting in JPEG-only mode. The functions that are disabled will vary by camera. When shooting in JPEG-only the full feature set of the camera will be available. However, if you do decide to shoot in JPEG-only mode you'll lose any of the advantages of PP with a Raw file.

Thank you for this video!

Your tutorial is really great . So thorough and elaborate, but at the same time admirably easy to understand. Thank you a lot!

Hi Paul
I shoot RAW
However... Recently the biggest lesson that I have learnt is why spend hours in front of computer. Of you get it right first time. Brilliant.

Learning the camera functions and histogram will save you so much time.

So jpeg is very compelling

What is a TIFF file etc and why should we use it?

I am new to your work but very much enjoying it

THANK YOU!!! When I made the step up from a point and shoot, the best bang for my budget was to kit myself out with a good used Nikon DSLR and two lenses (that STILL cost me less than a new mirrorless body). It gives me three choices of JPEG quality. I shot RAW for the first time a couple of weeks ago and felt like the entire post processing session was a salvage operation. I don't do this so that I can come home to a joyless slog that makes me want to cry, not when I can put the camera in "JPEG Fine" and complete an edit with a light touch - and heart.

Being new to photography I have no idea how to do any post editing so I shoot jpeg.

Another great video thank you I’m learning so much

My fuji xt5 allows me to set my camera to shoot fine raw and jpeg so I can get the best of both worlds. When I process the photos and send to instagram these are jpeg . I really enjoy your tutorials which are very clear and understandable.

I swear by raw format. If you’re doing this professionally, space shouldn’t be an issue.

No matter what I do an app I use my computer refuses to convert raw images they come out pink I have to use jpeg

Great video! What about the raw + L option - how would that work?

Always shoot raw there's no reason you shouldn't unless your a sports photographer or photo journalist.

You don’t know how much you just helped me !!

If you set your picture style for your jpegsto NEUTRAL then the preview image on the back of the LCD will be flatter and look more like the RAW image.(in case you shoot RAW + jpeg) and don't want to be spoiled with the fully processed look of the joeg image.

Set it to shoot BOTH RAW +
JPEG to get best of both worlds. big hatred drives are much cheaper these days. If you screw up a critical image shot in JPEG only there's nothing you can do to save it really but the RAW will save you. But yes RAW takes more time and patience and skills that many don't have

Hi Paul, I appreciate your videos and am learning so much from them as being a beginner. I have a question. I have been shooting in RAW and still do, I had heard someone mention about shooting in RAW plus JPEG. What would the benefit be of that. I have the Rebel T7 which offers that option. Thank you.

Great information!! Now I know reasons and facts to decide when to select either format! Thank you!!

I kind of choose depending on what I'm doing. If the photos I'm taking are for what I call reference only, I will just do JPG. These are photos I would do of different stages of a metalwork or woodwork project I'm working on. Or they could be the different stages of a local building project. Or they could be of a ship or superyacht which has come in our harbour. Or they can also cover me doing temporary photos where I have done a recce of a place I've not been to and found some good positions to get good photos, but the weather or light wasn't good at the time. It then reminds me where to go and I can walk straight to that point another day. The reason I will use RAW files for, is more valuable important stuff. The kind of stuff I think one day, I could use to make money out of. Anything scenic from landscapes, close ups of flowers, or a field of flowers. Long exposures, architecture, wildlife or patterns in nature. That's what I use RAW for.

I gave up on REAL cameras a couple years back. When 99% view everything on a hand sized Grease cover screen they pretend is a Phone It became obvious, there's No point. I threw out Terabyte drives of Photos because they Mean Nothing any more.
I'll never touch a DSLR or other capture device again.

Why would anyone buy a camera to shoot jpegs? Mobile phones are easily capable of producing them.

Hi Paul great video. Would it be possible you could advise best procedures in saving edited raw photographs in PS and LRC, for print.

I just bought a DSLR and I've taken 6,000 pictures. I shoot in raw and jpeg. I have not used one raw file, but they are there if I need them in the future.

Thanks for great information ☺️

sorry, I insist shooting RAW, don't ask me why?

I shoot JPEG because I do not have the processing ability (computer and program) to deal with the RAW files. Thanks for the video!

Just FOUND YOU !! Well I Teach Photography on here as well and also to the Beginners at my Club, Brentwood & District Photographic Club and YOUR 'Video Teaching ' is GREAT ! No 'Hums and Ahs' and you really Get Down to the 'Nitty Gritty ' NO WAFFLING first as so many others do -- I am still learning 'Digital' Photography although being IN Photography since 1951 and you are a GREAT TEACHER -- SUBSCRIBED ( 'Good On You Mate' in my Best Aussie Accent!! )

great explanation..... thanks

Seus vídeos são brilhantes. Obrigado.

I shoot for fun.
I don’t have editing software and don’t know how to edit anyway.
Therefore I shoot Jpeg!

By default, I always shoot JPEG because.......I don't have the option to shoot RAW. with my current camera. That will change soon, though.

I shoot Raw simple.

Thank you for all your content, your channel has been really great. Question, if I'm just practicing my skills and getting to know my different lenses, would shooting in JPEG force me to be a more accurate photographer on site? I don't want to over-rely on editing, but at the same time I get some practice shots where I love the composition and artistry and would like to fine-tune the image later on, but can't since I've been shooting in JPEG. At the same time, hundreds of these shots are throwaways. I'm never sure which are which til I see them on a computer screen. Even though I'm shooting on an older crop sensor camera, I've invested in pretty good glass- not topline glass, but not kit lenses either, and the widest apertures I could buy (I have two f/1.4 lenses and a continuous aperture f/2.8 zoom). Please advise, thanks!

If you edit your pics don't shoot Jpeg. Shoot in Raw. Now if you don't edit your images you are OK with Jpeg.

you really good at teaching very understandable

I have been wondering about this for while ! Thank you !!

First time watch you. I was wondering about the so called improved Jpeg that is call HEIF, what is the update to
using HEIF going to give me. Is it worth using vs. Jpeg. Does HEIF make using Raw less important.

Great video, but i must agree to disagree, coz HDD now a days much cheaper and much larger space ... i shots jpeg + raw, jpeg for fast upload or fast copy for the client, and new Lightroom is more capable to AUTO tone the raw image, make more dynamic range to the image. Coz i believe that all camera that shoots jpeg its the same level, but raw file, is the main reason u buy the latest and greatest camera that have 14-15 stops of dynamic range, clean high ISO, BSI sensor, low pass filter, etc.

Thank you for the great educational information. Much appreciated 🙏

Always shoot in RAW for editing, color correction and etc etc.

Amateur or any photo not a pro-level can be shot JPEG. But anyone taking photography seriously has to shoot RAW. And that's an undeniable fact.

Except saving some HDD space, there is no advantage to shoot JPEG. It does not make any sense to me to buy an expensive camera, with performant sensor, and then to shoot in 8 bit JPEG.
The high-ISO raw files I made 10-12 years ago are noisy, because the sensors were not so good as today. But now I have a chance to clean it up with programs like DXO Labs and to get cleaner images. It's like going back in the past and using a better sensor. If I would not shoot raw, I would have lost this flexibility.

i LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!

I remember back in the hoary old days I would always get a warning when I saved a picture as a JPEG. I never thought it was too lossy though. Nowadays I do mostly shoot in RAW because I enjoy editing my photos.

Really depends on how and what you are shooting and what your target market is, as well as just what kinds of editing/post-processing you do. If I do high speed burst work for sporting functions I shoot jpg, but if I am doing event/wedding/portrait work, I shoot raw, so really depends on the situation.