[LRflex] RAW vs JPEG fine?


On Apr 27, 2009, at 5:28 AM, Sonny Carter wrote:
I was a late comer to raw, but I'm totally convinced that raw is like negative and fine jpeg is like transparency. 

If you like to gamble, use jpeg.



I agree.
I have been shooting RAW/and fine jpeg bw, together, so I have the negative, see the color, and the bw...am sometimes very positively surprised by the quality look of the bw ... 

but then if I want bw,  I retrieve it and even better from the RAW file.

Comments appreciated, What do you think?

Steve



On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 7:06 AM, Alex Hurst <corkflor@xxxxxx> wrote:
Hi all.
I know this is a hoary old chestnut, but a reiteration of your views for the benefit of a tyro would be much appreciated
I've just acquired a very nice ex-demo black M8 body which comes with Capture One, not to mention the full Leica Passport. It's now mated to my Nocti, which is probably my M8 lens of choice most of the time.
As I'm a Mac man, I tend to use iPhoto as my main photo library, and edit in Photoshop.
To date with my Nikon D200 I've been very happy with the quality of the fine JPEGs (printing to a maximum size of A4), and haven't even dabbled in RAW.
But, as Capture One appears to be highly-rated, is it really worth learning its ins and outs to extract ultimate quality from the M8 in RAW, or should I stick to fine JPEGs and my usual routine as with the Nikon?
I emphasise that I'm not going to be producing huge exhibition prints, and the M8, like the Nikon, seems to produce 10Mb files in fine JPEG mode.
With my current set-up, editing is very quick. I have the impression that RAW is a lot more time-consuming, but I may be mistaken. 

What do you guys do and why?

Best of light.

Alex
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