Davidzuke

I know, this whole RAW or not to RAW debate has been hashed and rehashed on this site, so many times.  But I am still often asked by new and budding photographers on this site.  I shoot in RAW, I have my reasons and the simple answer is that it gives me better results, and the newbie often replies, well I get Great results with JPEG, so why do I need to bother with RAW and all the extra work it involves. The explanation is fairly complicated, as one needs to know the whole process of how a camera goes from the sensor to the JPEG image file and where and how shooting in RAW will make a difference. I finally made an effort and tried to summar