TomDart opened this issue on Jan 21, 2008 · 20 posts
Stevej46 posted Mon, 21 January 2008 at 7:43 PM
Attached Link: Stephen Johnson Photography
I started shooting in RAW last August. I love it. I use Nikon's CaptureNX to do my adjustments. It allows adjustments of exposure, sharpness, contrast, saturation and white balance just as if you did the adjustments before you made the shot. Also it allows pin point adjustments on just a small area of a photo. If I save for the internet, I save in .jpg. If I save for print, I save in .tif.The one big difference I notice is I never get .jpg artifacts on a RAW format photo. When I shot in .jpg and converted to .tif for print, I also had to contend with .jpg artifacts. They are very visible around hard lines in a photo.
I won't go back to shooting .jpg for shots I truly want to edit and print. Simple snap shots or photos only intended for the internet are fine shot in .jpg.
The photo included was shot and edited in RAW before conversion to .tif