I'll pass on RAW, except for Sushi!

For years I shot in jpeg but moved over initially to RAW + jpeg and then eventually to just RAW. The other day I revisted some of my images from about 8 years back and was disappointed I had no RAW images to work with. Processing the jpeg's was far inferior to working with RAW. I now wish i had kept dual versions of all My older photos. At the time I was concerned with storage space I wish I hadnt been,

Good points.

This thread goes on so I will dip my oar. I am convinced about the merits of RAW and its ability to stretch the digital medium. Shooting RAW offers more opportunity for post play. I do as much fore play as ever. I will stick to JPEG for now ( no vows no vows). (Same reason, by rough analogy, I can manage with MP3 and AAC audio files vs WAV. though I love digital as a storage medium vs vinyl). I am satisfied- or comfortable- with what I see via the JPEG as adjusted and tweaked a wee bit, and really please only myself, I know, I know, small ambitions. I do try to get the "flavor" right as I look in the finder. I have revisited images shot years ago, and can juice them up. If I cannot squeeze more in five minutes, I am out of here. Either naivite/ or stubbornness, who is to say. Though I am thinking of buying a variable density ND filter. Likely I may change my mind one day. But I doubt it.

I am not defending raw processing but I use it. As digital came out in 2002 I was leaving the wedding business which I shot all with film. I lost a lot of pictures with film because it was too hard to timely fix errors when mass processing for over five hundred pictures a wedding. Since I left the wedding business I have continued shoot a lot of sports including swimming. In the thousands of pictures I have taken in these endeavors I have saved a lot of decent pictures that would be valuable to individual swimmers because of the flexibility in using raw processing. Shooting indoor swim meets is difficult because of mixed color temperatures, bad lighting and the need at times for high ISOs. When I do a meet can load all raw pictures into Lightroom and make global or group changes to account for color temperature and exposure differences etc. I can then do cropping and any other changes I was to make. I can ready a meet inLightroom for publication and printing in a couple of hours. The main thing is that I can save some good pictures. For me raw processing is a valuable asset as I am trying to make individual swimmers happy. I am not doing this for art although I get personal satisfaction from it. I am doing this to make swimmers pleased with the product. Raw is very helpful n bringing pictures up to a satisfactory standard for use.