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>2. Capacity
Like I said, if Im shooting action two or three memory cards will last me the whole day. Static I run out even with JPEG.
But whatever works for you. I do maintain, though, that someone starting out should start out with RAW, so they learn to work with it for when it is absolutely needed, get used to any buffer problems if they are the type to run into those, and so on. If a beginner needs to go to JPEG, hell learn the hard way that he does.
>Secondly, raw takes about thrice the storage space compared to a highest-res, highest-quality JPEG. That means I can only take a third of the pictures on a given card, and I have to throw down money on a new set of hard drives sooner.
Back up your old RAW files onto CDs. Much cheaper than buying a new set of hard drives.
>But 99% of the time, at least for me, that someone else's decision is the same decision I'd have made.
Ill upload soon (Im on the wrong computer for this at the moment) a camera-processed JPEG and a RAW from when I was shooting JPEG plus RAW.
But again, for you that might be the case.
>This probably doesn't help my argument, but Ken Rockwell agrees with me: Michael Reichmann agrees with me, not that it matters who agrees with who. http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/understanding-series/u-raw-files.shtml
On a side note, why do people hate Ken Rockwell? I know almost nothing about him except that people dismiss and mock him, and what can be gleaned by reading two or three articles hes written.
And lastly, I hate lossy compression, and this is one area where I will firmly say that you should, too. There is no excuse for a camera to dump image quality before it even writes the frame to the card. At least save it in TIFF or some other lossless compression format. That JPEG has lossy compression makes it automatically something only to be used for sharing digital prints like on /p/, and for cameras that wont do RAW or TIFF.
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