What are the benefits of RAW?

[Arch]

If your jpegs are 2MB...I would be seriously wondering about the compression which you have the settings on, cuz on my Minolta 5D they are 8MB

most raw + jpeg options dont give a max rez jpeg.... its just for referance and ease of preview..... thats why they are only a few MB.

 

[Glimmerman]

These are my choices for sizing on the Nikon D80: (and I can choose which JPG to use when doing RAW + JPG)

• NEF (RAW): 12.4 MB
• JPEG Large / Fine: 4.8 MB
• JPEG Large / Normal: 2.4 MB
• JPEG Medium / Fine: 2.7 MB
• JPEG Medium / Normal: 1.3 MB
• JPEG Small / Fine: 1.2 MB
• JPEG Small / Normal: 0.6 MB


I am using JPG Large/Normal right now. I could bump it up to Larg/Fine, but that would eat up a lot of memory space, only 117 images on a 2gig disc. Time to buy a couple more 2 gigers I guess.

 

[Big Mike]

Go with the Large/fine.

When you say only 117 on a 2 gig card...is that RAW+JPEG? I don't see much of a reason to shoot RAW+Large JPEG. If you really must shoot RAW+ something...I suggest small fine or small normal even.

 

[Iron Flatline]

If all you need jpegs for is previewing on your computer, then Microsoft Windows XP users can install a Camera RAW Thumbnail generator. Very quick and small install:

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