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Anonymous
>>78473 No, RAW is good and your yearbook editor is a whore.
It gives you higher image quality and total control over the final image. It just takes five minutes longer to deal with than JPEGs, and some people are lazy and don't want to take that five minutes.
The Panasonics are much better cameras, the FZ-50 especially. However, some engineer at Panasonic went stupid and/or was whipped by the marketing department on the day they made the camera firmware. See, people had whined about Panasonic cameras having a smidge more noise than other brands, their one disadvantage. Panasonic's response? Bump up the noise reduction on the JPEGs to over nine-thousand, raping fine detail, especially color detail, and eliminating the biggest advantage (the lens) their cameras have. In RAW, however, one controls the amount of noise reduction, and can choose to not use it at all or use just a smidge.
If you want to see how much more detail the Panasonics' Leica-designed lenses get, look here:
http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canons5is/page17.asp
Then look at the next page for how noise reduction at higher ISOs ruins it.
And two other things:
1. The S3IS would be a better Canon choice if you don't need the hotshoe. It has two less megapixels, which won't make much difference in image quality. However, more megapixels for the same sensor size equals more noise.
2. If you don't need the huge zoom range of these, a cheap DSLR may be a better choice. If you don't need a quiet camera and will be doing a lot of shooting in low light without a flash, the answer is "yes."
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