The camera manufacturers know that you want your pictures coming out of the camera looking sharp and colorful. In addition, the camera will add some processing to the picture. Where you’ll see the biggest impact is in the highlights and shadows, where some detail may be lost. Some of that is color data, which is done by reducing the number of available colors (there are still a lot of colors available in JPEGs though). That means that a large chunk of data is actually discarded. A JPEG will only use about a quarter of the data that your camera captures. The first is that the camera compresses the picture data so that the file size is smaller. It is also the format of virtually every picture you see online.īut when your camera creates a JPEG, a few things happen. It is the default of virtually every camera. If you just pick up your camera and start shooting, you are creating JPEGs. And you know what? That has worked out pretty well. The idea is that everyone would use the same format and thus it would be easily shareable. It is called JPEG and stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. In the early days of digital, a group of experts got together and agreed on a file format everyone could use. When you take a picture, your camera is actually taking the data that it receives from the image sensor and creating a file. But first, let’s review the advantages of RAW files versus JPEGs. By doing so, aren’t you getting the best of both worlds? Most cameras will allow you to set you to put that setting on both RAW and JPEG. Take a look at your camera’s Quality or Image Quality setting in the menu.
But if you could have the advantages of both, however, wouldn’t that be the way to go? You can, actually! In other words, you have to make a decision, looking at the pros and cons of shooting RAW files and JPEGs. Usually, this question gets presented as an either/or proposition. Therefore, there are plenty of people who shoot both RAW+JPEG Those who don’t edit their files probably don’t really see the point of RAW files though. There isn’t much question that RAW files are superior. Usually, it is a matter of experienced photographers encouraging beginners to start shooting in RAW and stop shooting JPEG. For a long time in photography, there has been somewhat of a debate between shooting in RAW versus JPEG.
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