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Old November 19th 12, 10:45 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
Rob
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Default Camera JPEG engines

On 19/11/2012 10:33 AM, Alfred Molon wrote:
I'd be curious about your opinion/experience with the JPEG output of
today's cameras. Do you only shoot RAW and postprocess everything, or
RAW+JPEG and only postprocess selectively, or do you only shoot JPEG?

My personal experience is that the JPEG output of modern cameras is not
bad, sometimes surprisingly good, and -if the camera is set up properly-
only a certain percentage of images need RAW processing.



I only shoot JPG and only in exceptional circumstances will make a RAW
or HDR file. Can't afford the card/HDD space. I will only get ~1400
fine JPG images on a 32Gb card. NEF 12 bit lossless make 32mb 14bit
lossless make 41MB files and a large tiff 108.2 Mb.

As for as I can tell my JPG images have enough information to make large
prints.