JPEG vs. RAW

For all digital shooters out there, I am sure you know this by now, but you all can shoot in two different modes; JPEG or RAW. Snobby advanced amateurs like to show RAW because most pros do that way for whatever reasons.

JPEG is a digital file format already processed by in-camera computer chip. The chip does it its own way, and each manufacture have their own set up and preferences, or so the experts say (it's probably full of crap). What that means is that the manufactures control how your pictures are going to look like, to a great extent.

I don't want that, so I shoot RAW. The disadvantage of RAW is that the files are bigger in size, and if you don't know what you are doing in terms of adjusting the images with photoshop and all that, they are going to look like shit.

By the way, I shot in JPEG, because that was the only way I can throw a digital filter on this picture. It looks horrible.


Pentax K-7
DA 35mm macto
1/60 @ f/2.8
0 ev
ISO 200