raw vs jpeg

You're right, of course. My excuse is that in dynamic situtations there often isn't enough time. And shooting RAW gives you extra latitude.

G

To add to what Stefan has said, Silkypix is a RAW converter which also allows you to change exposure, colour, contrast, sharpness, and a few other things. It does this to the whole image, whilst CS3 and other image manipulation programmes allow you to make these, and many more, adjustments to selected parts of the image.

I am usually happy just to adjust the whole image, but I don't enter competitions or sell to Vogue, so my requirements are not particularly exacting.

G

Well I stopped using raw, the files take up to much space, take to long to upload to the computer, take to long to process and once processed don't see any difference from a jpg, and you get a lot more photos on your SD card, if you take the photo correctly in the first place you don't need to use raw and all that processing the camera does it for you, if you want to print an A3 photo convert it to a tiff.
Jack.

My 86 year old mentor at my camera club has taught me to shoot in RAW. Use CS3 to reveal my failings..and then correct them in the Raw converter then save them to JPG. and delete the Raw file to save space on the Hard drive. I am not sure I understand what I am doing in the Raw converter but the results regularly arein the top entries in our monthly comp...Beginners luck, I suspect.

It will be similar to what the camera would do in post processing, using Adobe software and intel/amd hardware. As opposed to what the pentax software hardware does in the camera.