Shooting in RAW or JEPG or both?

[photoascoli]

With my new Camera, Nikon D300, I have the options to save images in JEPG or RAW or both together.
What is the advantage of saving the images in both RAW and JEPG? (NEF and JEPG high in my case)
Do you recommend this practice?
I also have Elements 6 as an editor. I have no experience in RAW shooting.

Thanks for any guidelines and sharing your experience with me

Dov

[djwixx]

RAW will almost always be your best option, as long as you know what to do with it. Install Adobe Camera Raw 4.3.1 with Elements and see the options you have when you open a RAW image. For the sake of easier review take RAW and JPG. RAW images take longer to open. Bear in mind RAW won't look as good as a JPG initially because the camera has post processed already. RAW gives you the option to decide on the final result unlike JPG which is already done for you.

I initially tried RAW and got fed up very quickly, but stick with it, once you get used to it you'll love it.

[dang]

Here's some articles you might enjoy...
Basics:
http://photo.net/learn/raw/

Shooting RAW:
http://norman.walsh.name/2007/02/12/shootingRaw

Storing Digital Photos:
http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/storage.html

[dharden]

Just to throw another "personal experience" in

I've got the camera set to "Raw + JPEG" at the moment, and when I read through this post i actually thought to myself "why?". I'm shooting in tricky lighting that i NEED RAW capture for. Why on earth am I taking up card space and subsequently hard drive space with JPEGs as well? Doh!

I agree that one benefit might be that if your copy of windows / whatever can't preview RAW files (i've got the RAW viewer but I think it only handles NEF and CR2 so wouldn't help some users) then the JPEG makes a handy preview. But I really must go and turn it off on my bodies!

My rule of thumb, if it helps any, is JPEG for snaps and RAW for my "serious" stuff. But try it out first and see what works best for you...

HTH!

[coolay_11]

RAW is raw non edited by anything pure full digital data...
Jpeg come out after passing through the camera sensor prossesor ( fixing operation)
both mode to compare then follow the steps of th jpeg to fix the raw files if needed .
Raw always the best
Jpeg as is or risky fixing ;0)
then save it as Tiff ;0))