I have been shooting in RAW mode exclusively for about 6 months now and for me there is no going back. If your camera gives adequate performance in RAW mode and you are serious about photography there is no reason why you shouldn’t be using it.
Past cameras I had that supported RAW mode was very slow or the images were HUGE. This has been fixed in my D70 at least with its lossless RAW compression and speedy processing that does the compression in about 1/4 second, the camera also has a big enough buffer that you can fire off a couple of RAW shots quickly without having to wait. The D70 also has a very fast bus and card writing system so it makes good use of the faster memory cards, all of this combines to a no hassle RAW mode camera.
Some articles were published this week that goes into the whys of shooting in RAW links to them below, all of these were first found on the excellent Photography Blog.
Image Sushi: Sometimes RAW is better
The RAW truth
and for Nikon users a new version of Nikon Capture has been released, Capture is the premium RAW converter from Nikon.
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