JPEG compression

I have a Nikon D40x. What size should I shoot: Lage with fine or large with

normal JPG compression?

If you decide for jpg (rather than shooting raw), you should use the largest size and the best available quality ... so, I would use large/fine.

always use the largest and the highest quality. So go Large with High.

What is the compelling reason to shoot JPEG instead of RAW. It is like throwing away the negatives once you get the prints. It's easy to convert RAW image to JPEG, en masse. That way, you still have the "negatives" once you realize you can do better than blind conversion.

and always more involved if you need to upsize. To me, it makes no sense to shoot at anything other than the highest possible quality. Buy more cards. This was a more legitimate question back when a 1GB card cost $300, but card/storage costs are no longer a reason to shoot at less than the highest image quality setting.

As I mentioned elsewhere, I am a recent convert to digital. OK. tell me more about RAW.

I have a question on the subject as well... I have mine set up on JPG FINE, however when I send it to Photoshop the image is only at about 8x12 at 300 dpi. How do you make the images bigger?

 

I'd like to shoot RAW, but feel that having to purchase another software to convert NEF to JPG is kind of a ripp off on Nikon's part. So I'm pretty much stuck with JPG.

You can do a straight conversion even with the free software that comes with the camera. For more control, there's Ufraw and the free version of Silkypix.

RAW = remunerate Adobe weekly.

 

Which is a bit unfair, because Adobe revs Photoshop and ACR

only about once a year.

 

If digital cameras produced a good format like JPEG 2000 or

Whats-That-New-Microsoft thing, we wouldn't need RAW.

The main problem with JPEG is not quality of results,

but non-editability.