I shoot in RAW format also. ( I am thinking about designing a T-shirt with the logo: Digital Photographers shoot in the RAW then have (format) in very small print) I think having unprocessed images, is as close to a negative as you can get as azy states. Nothing wrong with shooting in jpgs, but it is a compressed format, while working with RAW then Tiff no compression is done, so I get the highest quality image possible. Not saying I can tell the difference, it is just I know that I am working with the highest quality that I can.