RAW or 'cooked'?

JuanoJuano Registered Users Posts: 4,890 Major grins
edited October 21, 2010 in Street and Documentary
OK..., OK..., I get the point. You've convinced me. RAW it is. I will get into it. THANKS!

I know that DGrin has a section to post questions, but I wanted to ask street and PJ folks if ALL of you shoot RAW ALL the time. I don’t want to get into the pros and cons of RAW vs “cooked” that are discussed elsewhere on this site, but rather do a small survey among friends. I don’t have experience with RAW that’s why I ask…
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  • M38A1M38A1 Registered Users Posts: 1,317 Major grins
    edited October 20, 2010
    I shoot RAW (.NEF actually) all the time. I'd much rather HAVE the data available than not have it in some smaller scale format when I really get lucky with a great shot. Besides, SD cards are cheap as is hard drive space and the edit process will pull the not-so-great shots out.
  • RichardRichard Administrators, Vanilla Admin Posts: 19,961 moderator
    edited October 20, 2010
    All raw, all the time.
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  • FlyingginaFlyinggina Registered Users Posts: 2,639 Major grins
    edited October 20, 2010
    RAW.

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  • misterbmisterb Banned Posts: 601 Major grins
    edited October 20, 2010
    RAW (.OCR for Olympus) or Film (the original RAW)
  • bdcolenbdcolen Registered Users Posts: 3,804 Major grins
    edited October 20, 2010
    Juano wrote: »
    I know that DGrin has a section to post questions, but I wanted to ask street and PJ folks if ALL of you shoot RAW ALL the time. I don’t want to get into the pros and cons of RAW vs “cooked” that are discussed elsewhere on this site, but rather do a small survey among friends. I don’t have experience with RAW that’s why I ask…

    Raw. Always. Imported as Adobe DNG. To shoot JPGs is to shoot film and throw away the negatives.mwink.gif
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  • DonRicklinDonRicklin Registered Users Posts: 5,551 Major grins
    edited October 20, 2010
    Raw, though my Pentax will do DNG. Haven't made that move, yet!

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  • rainbowrainbow Registered Users Posts: 2,765 Major grins
    edited October 20, 2010
    RAW... Then after I process and convert to JPeg, I try to transfer files to a couple of external drives to preserve hard drive space on my PC.
  • Firehouses of OhioFirehouses of Ohio Registered Users Posts: 75 Big grins
    edited October 20, 2010
    RAW or 'cooked'?
    I like questions like this.

    This is the story of two professional photographers that I was working in 2006. One is a well respected and thought that jpeg was it and after a while really was too busy after a while as what I was doing progressed.

    The other whom as well is respected asked me what I was shooting and he simply sat down at the computer to show me the difference. Then when his next appointment came in we started talking with the customer and I was able to watch him work in the studio to see what the difference between to the two formats are.

    The only way to shoot is "raw".
  • W.W. WebsterW.W. Webster Registered Users Posts: 3,204 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2010
    100% raw.
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  • JuanoJuano Registered Users Posts: 4,890 Major grins
    edited October 21, 2010
    Thanks, I think we can close the thread...
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