Digital Photography Expert Techniques

2.3. Know When Not to Shoot RAW

I started to call this section "Knowing When to Shoot RAW," but the fact is, you always want to shoot RAW unless there's some good reason why you can't, such as:

• Demand for an extremely fast turnaround time that simply allows no extra time for processing in RAW, even though the latter is bloody fast these days.

• Demand for the fastest sequence shooting with the largest number of contiguous images.

JPEGs may be less work, but sooner or later, you'll be sorry if they're your only digital negative because you can always be assured there's more creative leeway in a RAW file.