shooting raw

[KmH]

Thanks for educating me on this subject everyone... very much appreciated

What little info you have been giving is just a very light skim of the subject.

 

[KmH]

OK I am lost here ... RAW files? ... My camera the files are all Jpeg ... what are RAW files and how do you save them.

Read this and their other tutorials - Tutorials – The RAW File Format

FWIW, it's Raw, not RAW. Raw is not an acronym. There are over 100 Raw file types, most being proprietary but based on the TIFF file format (Tagged Image File Format).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAW_file_format

JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG

PNG - Portable Network Graphics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PNG_file_format

GIF - Graphics Interchange Format http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF

PSD - Photoshop Document http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#File_format (A PSD file has a maximum height and width of 30,000 pixels, and a file size limit of 2 Gigabytes.)

 

[mommyof4qteez]

What little info you have been giving is just a very light skim of the subject.

I understand that...but gives me some more info to process & study up on