[robski]

Originally Posted by ruchai

The advantage of taking RAW is you can correct brightness, sharpen, white balance etc in the pc without any degraded. Doing those things with jpeg files will usually degrade the pictures.

We are well aware of the rhetoric used to make the case for RAW. This thread is trying to illustrate the differences. So do you have any examples where your camera has degraded the image by using jpeg to a point where it is noticable.

From the practical tests I have made there is no clear advantage for me to change to using RAW 100% of the time. I would dearly love to use RAW if it gave more than a marginal improvement.

Personally I think it is questionable that RAW processing does not degrade the image in anyway. Stephen has already highlighted that Nikon are using some form of super fine loss compression method in their Compressed RAW format.

You have to remember that a lot of processing has to take place to get the senor signals into a usable image in the first place.