we crossed, cindy! silly girl, you definitely do NOT sound like a doofus! I'm happy shooting JPEGs too, but so many people around here keep talking about shooting in RAW. i just didn't see what the fuss was all about. for me, JPEG is just fine by me too. As for TIFF...it sucks that it's so slow. i will experiment and see if i can see a difference between the quality of the images. If i don't, i'm just gonna keep shooting in JPEG. i'll post my experiment results here so ya'all can also help me judge!