Of course not all shots. But trying to get the right exposure means less PP. Failed shots are discarded. This is on good aspect of digital. The downside is people to not TRY to get exposure right. For many years I shot on slide film for magazines. Fixed and action shots. Then you really leant expsure, composition etc….slide was sooo darned expensive!

No doubt, but this is after the fact. Unfortunately one can’t guarantee perfect exposure on all shots, especially test ones. What if a test shot is a “keeper”.

Not really. You can change color casts in jpeg, but that’s not the same thing.

One example? I have one many in RAW and JPG and the final result? At 100% all differences are none, except he additional time taken processing RAW. Plus many PP software will only deal with JPG 😉

can do in JPG as well…

Same with Olympus SOC is amazing

poor exposure….time better spent there than in PP!

plus many softwares will only deal with JPG

All these examples above – comparing ‘raw vs non-raw’ – I bet any price I could get the same results with Photoshop if all I got was the original in JPEG.

Three most important technical aspects of a picture – focus, exposure and aperture – can’t be changed later, no matter if you shoot RAW or now. If a picture is underexposed, the matrix didn’t have enough time to catch image data, and it’s just not there. Too much exposure – the details were washed away and that’s what you’ll find in your RAW image. Blurry pictures, out of focus – nothing will fix that, and these are most common problems we hit delete button.

Yes, we can nicely change white balance in RAW – so what? Send me your JPEGs with incorrect white balance and I’ll fix them perfectly in several seconds.

The biggest disadvantage of RAW is the size – and I’m not even talking about storing data – I’m talking about speed of processing. I have a super fast computer at home with 16GB of RAM – and editing RAW images is way slower than JPEGs. I’d be fine with it if I was to edit a few pictures a day, but usually there are hundreds of them. Even going through, let’s say, 200 pictures to choose a few best ones, takes 5-10 times more if they’re 30MB, rather than 3.

If you can make nicer pictures using RAWs, change your software, or learn how to use it, because with JPEGs you can do exactly as much.