After having shot the last few jobs in RAW, I can come up with another reason or two.
1) latitude is greater than with jpg. More ability to deal with possible blowouts and more ability to deal with shadows. 2) white balancing after the fact while looking at the whole sequence or shoot is easier and more consistent. I shot my first 10,000 frames in jpg and I can say that now I am a convert to RAW. Just more after the fact control. Not unlike a B&W photographer wishing to develop his/her own film and possibly doing their own printing. I will say that there is no single right solution here. One should try both ways and see which ends up being the better approach. Fortunately the *istD lets you choose which way you want to shoot. -- Best regards, Bruce Friday, September 10, 2004, 8:57:06 AM, you wrote: C> Here's my take: C> CF - get the largest you can afford, unless you actually enjoy changing C> them every so often C> RAW - there are three main reasons you may want to chose it: C> 1. you have to shoot so fast that you have no time to fiddle with the C> camera settings. "shoot first ask questions later". C> 2. your in-camera processing is of poor quality C> 3. you're trying to squeeze out the last bits from your camera for some C> extremely large prints or whatever. C> While 1 is understandable, if you're in situation 2 or 3 then the real C> solution would be to get a better camera.
