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Anonymous
Hey /p/, what are the benefits of shooting in RAW form on a DSLR or any digital camera for that matter?
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>> Anonymous
Better control of white balance, exposure, noise reduction and stuff like that in post-processing.
>> beethy !HJGkSBB3Ao
>>121077
/thread
>> Anonymous
Yes better control over blah blah blah i suppose... Really its all about converting the image to a usable format though.

When your digital camera takes a picture it essentially records the light it captures as a series of numbers which vary with brightness. If you save the image as a .jpeg, the camera then converts these numbers to an image that you can view immediately. If you save it in the cameras native format, (raw file) it does essentially nothing to those numbers except for store them for later use. Now why would you want that to happen?

When you convert raw files on your computer later, the conversion algorithms used are much more sophisticated. They allow for better image quality mostly due to increased bit depth. PLUS your raw format is lossless, meaning it doesn't lose quality like a jpeg would when its compressed.

If you're looking to save file space or aren't making prints of the images, jpegs will work fine though...
>> Anonymous
>>121077
>>121170

how does /p/ defy physics and /thread twice :S
>> Anonymous !SDPEsPMnww
>>121177
Self-timer paradox.
>> Anonymous
>>121170
>They allow for better image quality mostly due to increased bit depth

This also is useful for just screen display.

Raw also will give better image quality even if it only has eight bits- a digicam I have does raw, but only eight bit raw, and the difference between the JPEG and a raw file is night and day. Not the high-noon-to-moonless-night of 12 or 14 bit raw, but still a difference noticable even at screen sizes.