Brian if you are hesitant to shoot raw, I understand. The thing is they are going to be blowing these images up to quite a large size. You want your capture to contain as much data as possible..... While every image starts out as a raw when you click the shutter, depending on the type of file you decide to save it as (raw, tiff, jpeg) the camera will either leave it as is (raw), or process it into a tiff or a jpg. Because jpg is a lossy format you will lose some pixel data in the process. If your camera can shoot tiff's that would be better imho than shooting jpeg..... however if you decide to shoot jpg.... obviously you want to use the highest setting available.... immediately change them to tiff's when transferring to the computer.... this way if you work on them you will not have the quality degrading with each save..... Have fun! Sounds like a wonderful opportunity!

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