aaronnorth said:
If RAW is better then why do photographers still shoot in JPEG occasionally?
Nice shots anyway
JPEGs are used sometimes for ease of use, file size, most programs can handle them and so on. I don`t do a great deal of PS work, partly because I don`t know a great deal about it, but mostly because I don`t enjoy processing pics a great deal. What I have found out is that you can push RAW files a lot further than JPEGs. In the pic above, I have pushed the mid range tones way beyond the capability of the resolution of the pic. This is particularly noticeable in the sky.
Admittedly, it is a JPEG saved for the net, I rushed what I did, and the original file of George`s will be able to handle a lot more pushing, but it still won`t be able to cope with the levels being adjusted to the extent a RAW file would.
For a lot of people JPEGs are fine, and I still have a lot of JPEG images from D40 that print out great, but for that little extra to produce ultra fine printing, a RAW wins for me. They are bloody big files, though and very hard drive hungry.
Dave.