Hello and welcome to GMax studios.
In today's episode, we will be talking about the differences
between RAW and JPEG.
And hopefully telling you about when and which ones should
you be using.
Let us talk about the JPEG first.
When the camera captures an image,
the light hits the sensor, and the camera
processes the data with the processor,
and applies the settings that you have asked to.
These settings might be settings like white balance, ISO,
picture quality, and color profile.
It then stores this file in a locked format
and throws away the rest of the data.
This locked file, in effect, is your JPEG.
It is almost like creating a print
from a negative in a studio or in a dark room.
As compared to this, the RAW file is basically all the data
that the sense captures and it is
dumped into an open file, which you can then later
post-process in software like Lightroom and Photoshop.
This RAW data file is obviously called the RAW file.
Let us talk about the advantages of the JPEG first.
The JPEG file is extremely small since it is processing the file
according to the specifications that you
have asked the camera to do.
So it throws away the rest of the data,
making the file extremely small.
And therefore taking up less storage space on the memory
card and on your hardware.
The second advantage is that the JPEG files
are ready files in the sense that you don't
have to do anything with them.
You don't have to process them in any software.
So they are just ready to send it to whoever you wish
or upload them to various social media networking sites.
The JPEG format is pretty much universally adopted format.
So the files that you send will open in anybody's email
or they will show up the way they
are on pretty much any website that you
choose to upload them to, without any further processing.
Now let us talk about the advantages of RAW.
Now, since RAW files are larger than JPEGs,
you can obviously store lesser of them in your memory card
or on your hard drive.
Now, since the RAW file is an open file,
it is extremely easy to change settings like temperature,
exposure, contrast, et cetera, in post-processing,
and perhaps this is the biggest strength of a RAW file.
Which is better?
In my opinion, RAW is definitely better.
Because it is a large file, it has a lot of information
which the JPEG does not have.
So processing it, tweaking it according to your tastes
and preferences, is very easy.
And with storage costs coming down so much,
I think that the storage factor is now becoming irrelevant.
So unless you're shooting for a job that
requires almost instant delivery, like if you're
shooting a match where you need to send
your pictures to the magazine that you're working for,
or you are a photojournalist that needs to submit
a photograph at the end of the day,
I would really recommend shooting RAW.
Also, I feel that you do not know the real value
of your image when you take it.
You will know the real value of an image
maybe five years or 10 years down the line.
And it will not make you feel really good
if you know that you did not shoot
with the best possible options.
So I think that shooting RAW is a great way
to create a digital negative which
you can enhance and change according to your tastes
as the years go by.
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